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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201917 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1917 (see 1917 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1917 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1917
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201918 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1918 (see 1918 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1918 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1918
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201919 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1919 (see 1919 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1919 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1919
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201920 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1920 (see 1920 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1920 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1920
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201921 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1921 (see 1921 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1921 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1921
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201922 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1922 (see 1922 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1922 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1922
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201923 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1923 (see 1923 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1922
List of Italian films of 1924
External links
Italian films of 1923 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1923
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201924 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1924 (see 1924 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1923
List of Italian films of 1925
External links
Italian films of 1924 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1924
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201925 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1925 (see 1925 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1924
List of Italian films of 1926
External links
Italian films of 1925 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1925
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201926 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1926 (see 1926 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1925
List of Italian films of 1927
External links
Italian films of 1926 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1926
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsura%20Hattori | is a Japanese editor. After studying in MIT Media Lab, he worked as editor for computer magazines ASAHI pasokon and Doors.
References
1951 births
Living people
Japanese editors
Place of birth missing (living people)
Date of birth missing (living people)
MIT Media Lab people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201927 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1927 (see 1927 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1926
List of Italian films of 1928
External links
Italian films of 1927 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1927
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201928 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1928 (see 1928 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1927
List of Italian films of 1929
External links
Italian films of 1928 at the Internet Movie Database
Lists of 1928 films by country or language
1928
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201929 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1929 (see 1929 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1928
List of Italian films of 1930
External links
Italian films of 1929 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1929
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201930 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1930 (see 1930 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1929
List of Italian films of 1931
External links
Italian films of 1930 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1930
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201940 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1940 (see 1940 in film):
External links
Italian films of 1940 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1940
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201941 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1941 (see 1941 in film):
References
External links
Italian films of 1941 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1941
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201937 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1937 (see 1937 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1936
List of Italian films of 1938
External links
Italian films of 1937 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1937
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201947 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1947 (see 1947 in film):
A–Z
Documentary
References
External links
Italian films of 1947 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1947
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201949 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1949 (see 1949 in film):
References
External links
Italian films of 1949 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1949
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201943 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1943 (see 1943 in film):
References
External links
Italian films of 1943 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1943
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201944 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1944 (see 1944 in film):
References
External links
Italian films of 1944 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1944
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201945 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1945 (see 1945 in film):
References
Bibliography
External links
Italian films of 1945 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1945
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201946 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1946 (see 1946 in film):
References
External links
Italian films of 1946 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1946
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201948 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1948 (see 1948 in film):
References
External links
Italian films of 1948 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1948
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201932 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1932 (see 1932 in film):
See also
List of Italian films of 1931
List of Italian films of 1933
External links
Italian films of 1932 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1932
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%201942 | A list of films produced in Italy in 1942 (see 1942 in film):
References
External links
Italian films of 1942 at the Internet Movie Database
Italian
1942
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer%20group%20%28computer%20networking%29 | In computer networking, a peer group is a group of functional units in the same layer (see e.g. OSI model) of a network, by analogy with peer group. See also peer-to-peer (P2P) networking which is a specific type of networking relying on basically equal end hosts rather than on a hierarchy of devices.
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20flow%20%28computer%20networking%29 | In packet switching networks, traffic flow, packet flow or network flow is a sequence of packets from a source computer to a destination, which may be another host, a multicast group, or a broadcast domain. RFC 2722 defines traffic flow as "an artificial logical equivalent to a call or connection." RFC 3697 defines traffic flow as "a sequence of packets sent from a particular source to a particular unicast, anycast, or multicast destination that the source desires to label as a flow. A flow could consist of all packets in a specific transport connection or a media stream. However, a flow is not necessarily 1:1 mapped to a transport connection." Flow is also defined in RFC 3917 as "a set of IP packets passing an observation point in the network during a certain time interval."
Packet flow temporal efficiency can be affected by one-way delay (OWD) that is described as a combination of the following components:
Processing delay (the time taken to process a packet in a network node)
Queuing delay (the time a packet waits in a queue until it can be transmitted)
Transmission delay (the amount of time necessary to push all the packet into the wire)
Propagation delay (amount of time it takes the signal’s header to travel from the sender to the receiver)
Utility for network administration
Packets from one flow need to be handled differently from others, by means of separate queues in switches, routers and network adapters, to achieve traffic shaping, policing, fair queueing or quality of service. It is also a concept used in Queueing Network Analyzers (QNAs) or in packet tracing.
Applied to Internet routers, a flow may be a host-to-host communication path, or a socket-to-socket communication identified by a unique combination of source and destination addresses and port numbers, together with transport protocol (for example, UDP or TCP). In the TCP case, a flow may be a virtual circuit, also known as a virtual connection or a byte stream.
In packet switches, the flow may be identified by IEEE 802.1Q Virtual LAN tagging in Ethernet networks, or by a label-switched path in MPLS tag switching.
Packet flow can be represented as a path in a network to model network performance. For example, a water flow network can be used to conceptualize packet flow. Communication channels can be thought of as pipes, with the pipe capacity corresponding to bandwidth and flows corresponding to data throughput. This visualization can help to understand bottlenecks, queuing, and the unique requirements of tailored systems.
See also
Argus – Audit Record Generation and Utilization System
Cisco NetFlow
Dataflow (software engineering)
Data stream
Flow control
IP Flow Information Export
Stream (computing)
Telecommunication circuit
Traffic generation model
References
Inter-process communication
Streaming
Packets (information technology)
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrocell | A macrocell or macrosite is a cell in a mobile phone network that provides radio coverage served by a high power cell site (tower, antenna or mast). Generally, macrocells provide coverage larger than microcell. The antennas for macrocells are mounted on ground-based masts, rooftops and other existing structures, at a height that provides a clear view over the surrounding buildings and terrain. Macrocell base stations have power outputs of typically tens of watts. Macrocell performance can be increased by increasing the efficiency of the transceiver.
Scale
The term macrocell is used to describe the widest range of cell sizes. Macrocells are found in rural areas or along highways. Over a smaller cell area, a microcell is used in a densely populated urban area. Picocells are used for areas smaller than microcells, such as a large office, a mall, or train station. Currently the smallest area of coverage that can be implemented with a femtocell is a home or small office.
See also
Cellular network
Femtocell
GSM
Microcell
Picocell
Small Cells
References
External links
Mobile Phones: Jargon Explained
White Paper: The Business Case for Metrocells
How To Install A Cell Phone Tower
Mobile telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Farm%20Research%20and%20Development%20Center | The State Farm Research and Development Center opened in January 2005 at the University of Illinois’ Research Park. State Farm has been involved in academic programming, student assistance and research at U of I for over 35 years, but this facility allows for of college interns working on projects to benefit the company as a whole, while students get to apply what they learn in class to business problems.
Departments and Majors
The Research & Development Center (RDC) is located about from State Farm’s Corporate Headquarters making it easy to communicate back and forth on projects. This location allows State Farm associates to interact with the campus community and provide real-world education opportunities to students. The RDC houses three main departments or areas. The Actuary works with pricing insurance, Systems works with information technology, and Strategic Resources department works with corporate research functions. There are also interns working in the MAGNet program.
The Research & Development Center hires University of Illinois students for fall, spring, and summer internships from a variety of majors and backgrounds. The RDC started with 16 interns and four full-time staff members, but has expanded to house up to 70 interns and 14 full-time staff. Some of the majors that have been employed at the RDC are Actuarial Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Accountancy, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, Media Studies, Communication, Advertising, Marketing, Business Administration, Urban Planning, Political Science, and Psychology. The RDC paid internship runs part-time around 10–15 hours/week during the fall and spring semesters, and full-time in the summer.
Expansion
In 2006, the Research and Development Center facility doubled in size, to nearly . 2007 saw more growth as the Center for Consumer Feedback opened adding another .
In January 2007, State Farm was announced as a Private Sector Partner for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) located at U of I. Interns began working Research Center internships located at NCSA the following summer and continue on today.
In the fall of 2009 the Research & Development Center underwent a major expansion adding over .
MAGNet
Students have an opportunity to apply analytical skills to State Farm business issues through MAGNet, short for the Modeling and Analytic Graduate Network. Students in MAGNet are expected to enroll in a new master’s curriculum created via a relationship between State Farm and the U of I’s Statistics Department. MAGNet is similar to a 50% graduate assistantship as students work at the Research & Development Center 20 hours per week during academic semesters and receive a pay rate similar to that of graduate assistants at the university. Students are also offered tuition assistance while working in MAGNet. Those staying on in the summer will work full time and receive higher pay. Interested students apply in the fall of their senior year a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdour%20Castle | Aberdour Castle is in the village of Easter Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Parts of the castle date from around 1200, making Aberdour one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland, along with Castle Sween in Argyll, which was built at around the same time.
The earliest part of the castle was a modest hall house, on a site overlooking the Dour Burn. Over the next 400 years, the castle was successively expanded according to contemporary architectural ideas. The hall house became a tower house in the 15th century, and was extended twice in the 16th century. The final addition was made around 1635, with refined Renaissance details, and the whole was complemented by a walled garden to the east and terraced gardens to the south. The terraces, dating from the mid-16th century, form one of the oldest gardens in Scotland, and offer extensive views across the Firth of Forth to Edinburgh.
The castle is largely the creation of the Douglas Earls of Morton, who held Aberdour from the 14th century. The earls used Aberdour as a second home until 1642, when their primary residence, Dalkeith House, was sold. A fire in the late 17th century was followed by some repairs, but in 1725 the family purchased nearby Aberdour House, and the medieval castle was allowed to fall into decay. Today, only the 17th-century wing remains roofed, while the tower has mostly collapsed. Aberdour Castle is now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland, and is open to the public all year.
History
Origins
The barony of Aberdour was acquired in 1126, by Sir Alan de Mortimer, on his marriage to Anicea, daughter of Sir John de Vipont. Sir Alan built St Fillan's Church, which still stands, next to the castle, in around 1140, and his family probably built the original hall house in around 1200, or possibly even earlier. In 1216, another Alan de Mortimer is recorded granting land to the monks of Inchcolm Abbey. There is no record of what happened to the de Mortimers, but in the early 14th century, King Robert the Bruce granted Aberdour to his kinsman, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray (d. 1332). Moray's grandson granted the barony in turn to Sir William Douglas of Liddesdale (c. 1300-1353), in 1342.
In 1351, Sir William Douglas gave the lands of Aberdour to his nephew, Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith, although he retained the castle for himself until his death two years later. The grant was confirmed by King David II in 1361. In 1386 Aberdour and Dalkeith were combined to form a single barony, with the principal seat at Dalkeith, near Edinburgh, and Aberdour as a secondary residence. James, fourth Lord Dalkeith, succeeded to the joint barony in 1456, and was created Earl of Morton in 1458, prior to his marriage to Joanna, the deaf-mute daughter of James I. The newly created earl expanded the existing hall house, heightening and rebuilding the structure to suit his elevated status. The second earl carried out extensions to Aberdour Castle around 1500, building a new stair tower and so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-service%20business%20gateway | A multi-service business gateway (MSBG) is a device that combines multiple network voice and data communications functions into a single device. Targeted at small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the MSBG integrates critical functions such as routing, VoIP, and security (virtual private networking, firewall, intrusion detection/prevention) into a single fault-tolerant platform, with a common control & management plane oriented around services. An MSBG may also include functionality such as web/e-mail server and filtering, storage, and wireless networking.
Popularly identified in 2004, the MSBG product segment emerged to address the increasing need of advanced voice and data services among small and medium-sized businesses. The more limited financial and technical resources of SMEs restrict their ability procure, implement, and manage the technologies available to large enterprises. By integrating critical network functions in a single device, the MSBG provides a solution that is more affordable and also simplifies deployment and management for SMEs. MSBGs can be managed by service provider or other managed services company, which allows a business to implement network services without the need of its own information technology (IT) staff.
MSBGs provide a variety of solutions that can be used to support an SME's entire network. Use of a common architecture enables SMEs and service providers to expand the scale and services offered to meet the individual needs of the business. The openness of the MSBG also permits 3rd party applications or proprietary features to be added to the system.
References
Networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitran | Multitran is an editable Russian multilingual online dictionary launched on 1 April 2001. The English–Russian–English dictionary contains over four million entries, while the total database has about eight million entries. The dictionary has a function for reporting translation errors for registered users.
Features
Multitran's database contains over 10 million terms.
Every registered user is technically allowed to expand the dictionaries online (over 1000 translators are active contributors).
Alphabetical, morphological, word-combination search.
Simultaneous search in the dictionaries, forums, and in the database of English and Russian parallel sentences.
Every user of Multitran can ask a question concerning translation on the Multitran forums.
Languages
Multitran includes the following online dictionaries:
English–Russian and Russian–English
German–Russian and Russian–German
Spanish–Russian and Russian–Spanish
French–Russian and Russian–French
Dutch–Russian and Russian–Dutch
Italian–Russian and Russian–Italian
Latvian–Russian and Russian–Latvian
Estonian–Russian and Russian–Estonian
Japanese–Russian and Russian–Japanese
Afrikaans–Russian and Russian–Afrikaans
English–German and German–English
English–Japanese and Japanese–English
The following dictionaries are to be offered soon:
Azerbaijani–Russian and Russian–Azerbaijani
Norwegian–Russian and Russian–Norwegian
Turkish–Russian and Russian–Turkish
Ukrainian–Russian and Russian–Ukrainian
History
The developer of the Multitran software is Andrey Pominov, Moscow. Currently, Multitran is one of the largest and most popular web dictionaries in Russia. Every day, over 90 thousand people visit Multitran.ru, and over 1.5 million search requests are processed.
The Multitran base was created by scanning a wealth of paper dictionaries and combining all the translations in one database.
The website historically had a very low budget: according to Multitran's history page, a CPU paid only one dollar served over 4 million hits, and the site had issues with networking and electricity works around the webmaster's house in 2001 and 2002, as well as with growing traffic in 2002–03.
Multitran users arrange offline meetings from time to time, the so called pow-wows. Such pow-wows were held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kyiv.
In May 2019 the Multitran's website was redesigned, with a gradual transfer of all user-generated data to the new website.
In early June 2023 the website announced that its server has been transferred to Finland.
Copyright
The Multitran software is proprietary and closed-source.
The website content was copied from hundreds copyrighted sources, the majority of which were published after 1970. It's not known how this can respect copyright laws: the website doesn't state whether a license was acquired from the copyright owners, nor whether the sources were determined to be in the public domain.
Contributions by users are in unknown copyright status.
Advantage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location%20estimation%20in%20sensor%20networks | Location estimation in wireless sensor networks is the problem of estimating the location of an object from a set of noisy measurements. These measurements are acquired in a distributed
manner by a set of sensors.
Use
Many civilian and military applications require monitoring that can identify objects in a specific area, such as monitoring the front entrance of a private house by a single camera. Monitored areas that are large relative to objects of interest often require multiple sensors (e.g., infra-red detectors) at multiple locations. A centralized observer or computer application monitors the sensors. The communication to power and bandwidth requirements call for efficient design of the sensor, transmission, and processing.
The CodeBlue system of Harvard University is an example where a vast number of sensors distributed among hospital facilities allow staff to locate a patient in distress. In addition, the sensor array enables online recording of medical information while allowing the patient to move around. Military applications (e.g. locating an intruder into a secured area) are also good candidates for setting a wireless sensor network.
Setting
Let denote the position of interest. A set of sensors
acquire measurements contaminated by an
additive noise owing some known or unknown probability density function (PDF). The sensors transmit measurements to a central processor. The th sensor encodes
by a function . The application processing the data applies a pre-defined estimation rule
. The set of message functions
and the fusion rule are
designed to minimize estimation error.
For example: minimizing the mean squared error (MSE),
.
Ideally, sensors transmit their measurements
right to the processing center, that is . In this
settings, the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is an unbiased estimator whose MSE is
assuming a white Gaussian noise
. The next sections suggest
alternative designs when the sensors are bandwidth constrained to
1 bit transmission, that is =0 or 1.
Known noise PDF
A Gaussian noise
system can be designed as follows:
Here is a parameter leveraging our prior knowledge of the
approximate location of . In this design, the random value
of is distributed Bernoulli~. The
processing center averages the received bits to form an estimate
of , which is then used to find an estimate of . It can be verified that for the optimal (and
infeasible) choice of the variance of this estimator
is which is only times the
variance of MLE without bandwidth constraint. The variance
increases as deviates from the real value of , but it can be shown that as long as the factor in the MSE remains approximately 2. Choosing a suitable value for is a major disadvantage of this method since our model does not assume prior knowledge about the approximated location of . A coarse estimation can be used to overcome this limitation. However, it requires additional hardware in each of
the sensors.
A system design with arbitr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWED | KWED (1580 AM) is a radio station in Seguin, Texas broadcasting a full service country music format. It is currently owned by Guadalupe Media, Ltd. Programming is sourced from Premiere Networks and Westwood One, along with news and weather updates every hour from CBS News Radio and an in-house news staff. KWED also operates an online newspaper, Seguin Daily News, produced by the news staff every business day and available for free on the station's website.
KWED uses a non-directional antenna, broadcasting with 1,450 watts during the day, covering all of Guadalupe County and most of the Eastern San Antonio metro area, including the cities of Schertz, New Braunfels, San Marcos, and Luling. But because 1580 AM is a Canadian clear-channel frequency, KWED powers down to 300 watts at night to protect CKDO in Oshawa, Ontario. This means that the station cannot be heard outside of Guadalupe County at night. The signal originates from a transmitter site located on C.H. Matthies Jr. Drive in west Seguin, just to the north of the Texas Lutheran University campus. Studios and offices are located on East Court Street, also in Seguin.
History
Early Years
On June 27, 1946, KWED's initial construction permit was granted to Seguin resident Weldon Lawson. KWED was to initially broadcast with unlimited hours on 1400 kHz, contingent on KONO's move from 1400 kHz to 860 kHz. However, KWED was granted a license for 1580 as a daytime-only station prior to sign-on; this was necessary as 1580 was, and still is, a Canadian clear-channel frequency. KWED began broadcasting on September 9, 1948, and its initial license to cover was granted on October 4, 1948. On January 1, 1950, Garfield Kiel, the station's initial general manager, became a co-partner in the operation. The two re-organized their holdings into the Seguin Broadcasting Company, effective July 18, 1952. By 1957, KWED had relocated to its current studios on East Court Street.
In 1969, Stan McKenzie, who had been associated with the station since 1950, became the station's majority owner, taking over from Kiel's wife Edith. That same year, KWED received an initial construction permit for a new FM station that would broadcast on 105.3 MHz.
Aborted 2016 sale to Seguin ISD
On August 18, 2016, the Seguin ISD school board voted 6-1 to enter into negotiations with Guadalupe Media to lease the company's assets including KWED, the Seguin Daily News, and its community web portal seguintoday.com. The school board stated that the purchase of the station would provide learning opportunities to students interested in broadcasting. The district would have paid $6,250 a month over five years to lease the paper and radio station, with the opportunity to purchase them outright after two years. Community backlash against the district was swift, with some residents (including Seguin Mayor Don Keil) feeling that the school board's intent was to silence a media outlet whose reporting had been critical of the district in recent y |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Trevor" is the seventeenth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on April 11, 1999, in the United States. The episode was written by Jim Guttridge and Ken Hawryliw, and directed by Rob Bowman. "Trevor" is a "Monster-of-the-Week" episode, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Trevor" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.4, being watched by 17.6 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed reviews from critics.
The X-Files centers on a pair of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases usually, but not exclusively, linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Agent Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Agent Scully has been assigned by the FBI to debunk his work. However, the two have developed a close friendship. In "Trevor", Agents Mulder and Scully search for an escaped convict in Mississippi who was suspected of killing his prison warden under mysterious circumstances. They then set out to find and apprehend him, but in doing so, Agents Mulder and Scully quickly discover that he has the uncanny ability to pass through solid, conductive materials.
"Trevor" was co-written by Ken Hawryliw and Jim Guttridge, who developed a partnership after working on the television series Millennium. The episode was originally supposed to be set in Oklahoma, but was changed to Mississippi for budgetary reasons. In addition, many of the special effects used in the episode were created by conventional methods in order to not exceed the budget of the show; this included the removal of a scene that would have shown Pinker moving through the walls in a motel.
Plot
In Stringer, Mississippi, inmates are being made to prepare and fortify a prison farm for a series of devastating tornadoes, which are due to pass through within the next few hours. An argument breaks out between Wilson "Pinker" Rawls (John Diehl) and another inmate, causing Pinker to nail the other prisoner's hand to a wall. After being reported to the warden for the incident, Pinker is made to sit through the tornado in a tiny outdoor shack. Afterwards, the prisoners and guards emerge from their shelters and discover that the shack has been totally destroyed. One of the guards later finds the warden's body split in half around the waist, propping his office door shut from the inside.
Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) soon arrive to investigate. Scully performs an autopsy and concludes that the severing of the torso and severe burn marks could have been caused by the weather conditions at the time and that a substantial amount of the torso is missing from the severing. The guard who found the warden's body insists that it was the work of Pinker, but cannot bring himself to explain how he did it. Mulder finds that a wall in the office has become extremely brittle and crumbles at the sli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milagro%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Milagro" is the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It originally aired on the Fox network on April 18, 1999. The episode's teleplay was written by Chris Carter from a story by John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Kim Manners. The episode is a "Monster of the Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Milagro" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9, being watched by 15.2 million people upon its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from television critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders in which the heart has been removed from the victims. A writer who lives next door to Mulder is writing a novel about the murders before they actually happen and soon, Scully finds herself confused and drawn to the writer, who has a romantic interest in her.
"Milagro" was inspired by the idea of someone thinking of something so much that it becomes a reality, a topic Shiban later noted was "familiar" to anyone who had written a script. The part of Phillip Padgett had been written specifically for the actor John Hawkes. In addition, the production for "Milagro" was decidedly low-budget due to its "intimate and personality-driven" nature. The episode's title means "miracle" in Spanish. The episode has been analyzed for its use of symbolism, its exploration of motive, and the role reversal of Mulder and Scully.
Plot
Phillip Padgett (John Hawkes), a fledgling author, sits at a desk, suffering from writer's block. He eventually retires to the bathroom to discard a spent cigarette. Without warning or concern, the man suddenly reaches into his chest and removes a bloody heart. Later, he walks down metal stairs into a cluttered basement, and opens the door of an incinerator. Noticing a beating heart amidst the flames, and unfazed by the vision, he nonchalantly tosses in a paper bag.
Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) later encounters the stranger as she walks into an elevator. Both ride in silence up to the fourth floor, with Scully somewhat unsettled by the experience. At Fox Mulder's (David Duchovny) apartment, Mulder and Scully begin discussing a case the pair are working on, wherein the heart of the victim had been removed with the absence of any significant physical evidence. Mulder believes the heart was removed with a technique known as psychic surgery. Meanwhile, Padgett, who is Mulder's neighbor, stands on a chair with his ear to an air vent, listening to the conversation.
Later that night, two teenagers get into a fight in the woods. The girl, named Maggie (Jillian Bach), runs into the woods to be alone and Kevin (Angelo Vacco), her boyfriend, g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Next%20Top%20Model%20%28season%2011%29 | The eleventh cycle of America's Next Top Model premiered on September 3, 2008, and was the fifth season to be aired on The CW network. The promotional catchphrase of the cycle was "Feel The Love."
The prizes for this cycle were:
A modeling contract with Elite Model Management.
A fashion spread and cover in Seventeen.
A 100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics.
Approximately the first half of the competition took place in Los Angeles, moving the show back from New York City where it was held last season. The international destination for the final episodes of the cycle was Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The promotional song was "When I Grow Up" by the Pussycat Dolls.
The winner was 19-year-old McKey Sullivan from Lake Forest, Illinois with Samantha Potter placing as the runner up.
Season summary
Starting from this cycle, the contestant called first in judging every week would have her picture (or commercial) displayed as digital art in the models' house for the rest of the week. The CoverGirl of the Week contest was replaced by a new segment called Top Models in Action, focusing on former alums post-show careers.
The show featured fourteen contestants, similar to cycles 3, 4 and 10. The winner of this cycle, similar to the past four cycles, won management and representation by Elite Model Management, a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, and the cover and six-page fashion spread in Seventeen. This season averaged 4.43 million viewers.
This cycle included a first for the series – having a transgender contestant named Isis King participate and qualify for the final fourteen. The inclusion has been noted as an "unprecedented opportunity" by Neil Giuliano, president of GLAAD, a national LGBT media advocacy group.
Contestants
(Ages stated are at time of contest)
Episodes
Summaries
Call-out order
The contestant was eliminated
The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel
The contestant won the competition
Bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their first time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their second time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their third time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated outside of the judging panel
The contestant was eliminated in the final judging and placed as the runner-up
Average call-out order
Casting call-out order and final two are not included.
Photo shoot guide
Episode 1: Futurists in a metallic blue catsuit (casting)
Episode 2: Electoral promotion campaign
Episode 3: Hanging on a rope ladder from a hot air balloon
Episode 4: Swimsuits on Malibu beaches
Episode 5: Fierces eyes above water
Episode 6: Mod-style natural disasters
Episode 7: Scenarios at an awards ceremony
Episode 9: CoverGirl Eye Enhancers Blast commercial
Episode 10: 17th century pirates on a clipper
Episode 11: Simplistic and dramatic in a warehouse
Episode 12: Windmill couture
Episose 13: CoverGirl WetSlicks Amaze Mint Lipgloss commercial and print |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OC%20Channel | OC Channel was an over-the-air, digital broadcast, television news network. The channel is broadcast on a digital sub channel of PBS member station KOCE in Huntington Beach, California. This service is no longer in operation as a secondary lineup of PBS programming is currently carried on channel 50.2, as of May 2017.
History and programming
OC Channel began broadcasting on KOCE's digital sub-channel in 2007. The channel was produced in a partnership between KOCE and Chapman University with programming consisting of Orange County news, local events information, weather and traffic. The channel's format consisted of an L-frame shaped area on the screen, which featured live traffic cameras from Caltrans, current temperature/time and a news headlines crawl on the bottom of the screen. The remaining and larger portion of the screen provided viewers with local public affairs/news programs and documentaries. The channel could be viewed in Orange County, Los Angeles County, Ventura County and portions of San Bernardino County & Riverside County to viewers able to receive digital broadcasts. The channel was also available on Cox Communications in Orange County.
See also
KOCE
References
External links
24-hour television news channels in the United States
Chapman University
Defunct television networks in the United States
Mass media in Orange County, California
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
Television stations in California
Television stations in Los Angeles
2007 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OutTV%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | OutTV (stylized OUTtv) is a Canadian English language specialty channel and streaming network that was launched in September 2001. It broadcasts general entertainment and lifestyle programming aimed at the LGBT community.
The network is owned by OUTtv Media Global Inc., majority owned (51%) by Ronald N. Stern through OM Acquisitions.
History
As PrideVision
The channel was launched on September 7, 2001 as PrideVision TV. Owned by Headline Media Group, it was Canada's first 24-hour cable television channel targeted at LGBT audiences. It was also the second LGBT-focused channel to be established in the world, after the Gay Cable Network in the U.S., which shut down in 2001. PrideVision TV was one of 21 digital specialty services that were granted a Category 1 license by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 24, 2000; all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers would be obliged to carry the network in their lineup. Headline Media Group owned 70.1% of the licence, while Alliance Atlantis owned the remaining interest. In February 2001, before the channel was launched, Alliance Atlantis sold its entire interest in the licence to Headline Media Group, which became the sole owner of the licence.
The network launched with a lineup of lifestyle and general entertainment programming, consisting of dramas, comedies, feature films, documentaries and talk shows during the day and in prime time, as well as pornographic films nightly after 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
As PrideVision, the channel maintained a national advisory committee to provide input and feedback on the station's programming and its effectiveness at serving LGBT communities. The committee included businessman and activist Jim Deva, Outlooks publisher Roy Heale, Egale Canada executive director John Fisher, Suzanne Girard of Divers/Cité, Carmela Laurignano of Evanov Communications, Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray, Toronto city councillor Kyle Rae, Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto pastor Brent Hawkes, Ruby Hamilton of PFLAG and Halifax businesswoman Shelley Taylor.
Carriage difficulties
PrideVision had considerable difficulty building an audience in its early years, due primarily to its pornographic programming: the network did not have a timeshift channel for the west coast, which led to PrideVision's adult content airing as early as 9:00 p.m. in the Pacific Time Zone. As such, the channel was marketed by many television providers as a standalone, premium service adult channel, rather than in a bundle with other specialty services, considerably reducing the number of potential subscribers. The channel also faced particular resistance from Shaw Cable, the largest cable television provider in Western Canada, which was accused of constraining the availability of PrideVision during the channel's first few months in operation. During a three-month long free preview period that was mandated by the CRTC to help launch the slate of new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20M.%20Young%20Jr. | David M. Young Jr. (October 20, 1923 – December 21, 2008) was an American mathematician and computer scientist who was one of the pioneers in the field of modern numerical analysis/scientific computing.
Contributions
Dr. Young is best known for establishing the mathematical framework for iterative methods (a.k.a. preconditioning). These algorithms are now used in computer software on high performance supercomputers for the numerical solution of large sparse linear systems arising from problems involving partial differential equations. See, in particular, the successive over-relaxation (SOR) and symmetric successive over-relaxation (SSOR) methods.
When David Young first began his research on iterative methods
in the late 1940s, there was some skepticism with the idea of using iterative methods on
the new computing machines to solve industrial-size problems.
Ever since Young's ground-breaking Ph.D. thesis, iterative methods have been used on a wide range of scientific and engineering
applications with a variety of new iterative methods having been developed.
Education and career
David Young earned a bachelor's degree in 1944 from the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture. After service in the U.S. Navy
during part of World War II, he went to Harvard University to study mathematics and was awarded a master's degree in 1947 and a Ph.D in 1950, working under the supervision of Professor Garrett Birkhoff. Young began his academic career at the University of Maryland, College Park and
he was the first to teach a mathematics course focusing mainly on numerical analysis and computer programming.
After several years working in the aero-space industry in Los Angeles,
he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, in 1958. Dr. Young was the founding Director of the university Computation Center and then the research Center for Numerical Analysis (CNA) in 1970. He would become the Ashbel Smith Professor of Mathematics and Computer Sciences as well as a founding member of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), all at the University of Texas at Austin.
Awards and honors
Professor David Young was awarded the title: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was honored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1990 for "outstanding contributions to computer science".
In October 1988, the first IMACS International Conference on Iterative Method was held in Austin, Texas, in honor of Young's 65th birthday. The book Iterative Methods for Large Linear Systems (David R. Kincaid and Linda J. Hayes, eds., Academic Press, 1990) contains the invited presentations.
A special issue of the Journal of Linear Algebra and Its Applications was dedicated to Young for his 70th birthday. In 1998, the fourth IMACS Iterative Conference was held at the University of Texas at Austin in special recognition of Young's 75th birthday and Richard Varga's 70th birthday. In 2000, a symposium was given a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Computer%20Inquiry | The Second Computer Inquiry is the second proceeding in the FCC trilogy The Computer Inquiries, which created the FCC's policy of regulating the way in which telecommunications carriers' networks are opened up and made available to enhanced services (aka computer networks). The proceeding reformed the First Computer Inquiry which established the policy objectives that telecommunications carriers which have market power and the ability to discriminate be regulated, and computer services which were competitive, innovative, and had low barriers to entry, would not be regulated. The FCC saw great promise in the computer services industry and sought to ensure that the telecommunications network was adequately meeting the needs of the computer market. In the Second Computer Inquiry, the FCC created the basic service (telecommunications carriers, regulated) versus enhanced service (computer services, unregulated) dichotomy. Broadly speaking, the FCC concluded that basic telecommunications carriers networks must be open, and, if a telecommunications carrier offers enhanced services, it must do so through a separate corporate subsidiary. Everything that the telecommunications carrier sold to its own enhanced service, must be sold to all other enhanced services on the same terms and conditions. The FCC also restricted the ability of telecommunications carriers to bundle telecommunications services with customer premises equipment (CPE), creating a new competitive market for telephones and modems. These rules were generally codified in Section 64.702 of the Federal Communications Commission's Rules and Regulation.
References
External links
Cybertelecom :: Computer Inquiries
Federal Communications Commission |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishi-Funabashi%20Station | is a railway station in Funabashi, Japan, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), Tokyo Metro, and the Tōyō Rapid Railway. It is the easternmost station of the Tokyo subway network, lying in Chiba Prefecture.
Lines
Nishi-Funabashi Station is served by the following lines.
East Japan Railway Company
Chūō-Sōbu Line
Musashino Line
Keiyō Line
Tokyo Metro
Tōzai Line
Tōyō Rapid Railway
Tōyō Rapid Railway Line
Station layout
The station consists of six island platforms serving eleven tracks on two levels (another two tracks are used by Sōbu Line (Rapid) trains which do not stop at the station). The high-level station serves the Keiyō and Musashino Lines. The low level is served by the Sōbu, Tōzai and Tōyō Rapid Railway Lines. The low level can be subdivided into two sections, one served by trains running into Tokyo via the Sōbu Line and the other by trains running into Tokyo via the Tōzai Line, since all the track connections between the two lines are east of the station.
Platforms 1 and 2 are for Sōbu Line trains for , and , and platforms 3 and 4 for trains for , , , and . Platforms 2 and 3 share the same track and are often used to terminate trains from .
Within the Tokyo Metro section, platform 5 is the main platform for Tōyō services to and , while the few trains from the Tōzai Line to Funabashi and Tsudanuma can also leave from here. Platform 6 is mainly used for terminating Tōzai Line trains (to , , and ), although it is used for through services in peak hours. Platform 7 is mainly used for Tōzai Line trains (mainly for reversing them), and platform 8 is exclusively for Tōzai Line trains.
The high-level station consists of platforms 9 to 12. Normally platforms 9 and 10 are used by Musashino Line trains (to , and ), platform 11 is used by trains to Tokyo (via and ) and platform 12 by trains to , and .
Ground-level platforms
Elevated platforms
History
The station opened on the Sobu Line on November 10, 1958, initially serving passengers only. It moved into a new station building on December 15, 1968, when the line was quadrupled.
The Eidan Tozai Line arrived here on March 29, 1969, and through service between the two lines commenced. Freight services commenced on April 8.
The high-level station opened on October 2, 1978, when platforms 9 and 10 (presentday 11 and 12) started being used as the terminus of the Musashino Line. On March 3, 1986, platforms 9 and 10 opened for use by the initial section of the Keiyo Line (from here to Chiba-Minato). Freight services ceased on November 1, 1986.
The next part of the Keiyō Line (Shin-Kiba to Nishi-Funabashi and Minami-Funabashi) opened on December 1, 1988. At the same time, through services began between the Keiyo and Musashino Lines.
The Tōyō Rapid Railway Line opened on April 27, 1996, with through services to the Eidan Tōzai Line from the first day.
The station facilities of the Tozai Line were inherited by Tokyo Metro after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Horner | Craig Horner (born 24 January 1983) is an Australian actor and musician who first appeared in the Australian television program Cybergirl. He is best known for his role as Richard Cypher in the television series Legend of the Seeker.
Early life
Horner attended St Peters Lutheran College in Indooroopilly, Brisbane, Australia. Horner discovered a love for acting after appearing in school productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Maids.
Career
Acting
Horner has appeared in various TV programs since 2001: as Jackson in "Cybergirl"; as Jesse Spencer's brother in "Swimming Upstream;" as a reporter on "Totally Wild," and starred as Caleb in the U.S.'s "Monarch Cove". In 2008, Horner joined the cast of the Australian children's drama television series Blue Water High, portraying surfer Garry Miller and then Ash Dove in the series H2O: Just Add Water. He starred as Richard Cypher in Legend of the Seeker, the syndicated television adaptation of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth book series.
He also starred alongside Michael J. Pagan in Gregory Dark's film, See No Evil.
Music
In addition to acting, Horner has been active as a musician, playing the guitar and writing music. He was a member of the band 'Earth For Now' (called 'Unstable Conditions' in 2011) who played their first show in Hollywood, California, starting the set with "Howl at the Moon". Horner and bandmate Steve Matsumura announced their departure from the band on 2 February 2012. He published two songs on iTunes, "Avoid" and "Say What You Mean" under the name 'Ithaca'.
Horner also enjoys playing soccer, volleyball, tennis, swimming, skiing, snowboarding, and kayaking.
Filmography
Cinema
Blurred (2002)
The Moment After (2003)
Swimming Upstream (2003) as Ronald Fingleton
See No Evil (2006) as Richie Bernson
Joey Dakota - TV movie (2012)
This Little Love of Mine (2021)
A Perfect Pairing (2022) as Calder
Television
Cybergirl – TV series, 26 episodes (2001–02) as Jackson
headLand – TV series, episodes S1 E11-12 (2005)
Two Twisted – TV series, episode S1 E14 (2006)
Monarch Cove – TV series, 8 episodes (2006) as Caleb
H2O: Just Add Water – TV series, 10 episodes (2007–08) as Ash Dove
Blue Water High – TV series, 24 episodes (2008) as Garry Miller
Legend of the Seeker - TV series, 44 episodes (2008–10) as Richard Cypher
Hindsight – TV series, 10 episodes (2015) as Sean Reeves
Once Upon a Time – TV series, S6, 1 episode (2016) as Edmond Dantès / Count of Monte Cristo
Totally Wild as Presenter
References
External links
Web site of Horner's band Ithaca
Australian male child actors
Australian male television actors
21st-century Australian male actors
Living people
1983 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Stroke%20Network | The Canadian Stroke Network (CSN) is a non-profit healthcare organization.
About
The Canadian Stroke Network is a not-for-profit, collaborative effort, with more than 100 researchers at 24 universities across Canada. It began in 1999, with $4.7 million in funding from the federal government. It is governed by a Board of Directors and has its headquarters at the University of Ottawa.
Research
CSN researchers are involved in writing the Evidence-based Review of Stroke Rehabilitation (EBRSR), a resource that provides a review of the stroke rehabilitation research literature available. They also continue to enhance StrokEngine, a Web-based educational tool which offers an "A to Z" listing of every stroke rehabilitation intervention currently available in Canada.
The CSN currently funds four themes of research:
Preventing stroke
Optimizing acute stroke care
Minimizing stroke damage
Post-stroke repair and recovery
Training and outreach
Publications
The CSN, in partnership with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, also produces the Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care, published as a website. In 2011, they released "The Quality of Stroke Care in Canada", a report that examined stroke care in Canada. Based on an audit of hospitals across Canada, the study looked at the quality of stroke care provided in emergency response, in-hospital care and in rehabilitation and recovery.
The CSN wrote a book to support people living with stroke. The book, titled Getting on with the Rest of your Life After Stroke, provides suggestions of activities, exercises and hobbies for people recovering from a stroke.
The Canadian Stroke Network was involved in the creation of the National Stroke Nursing Council in 2005, which brings together stroke nurses across Canada to improve training and development. Stroke Nursing News is the publication disseminated and funded by the Network.
Sodium
The Canadian Stroke Network is a national leader in raising awareness about the health risks of excessive sodium consumption. The Network has publicized findings from studies involving CSN researchers and, with its partners, has successfully urged Health Canada to include information about salt in Canada's Food Guide. The CSN also created a website to inform Canadians about sodium content in food. The website called Sodium 101. A Sodium 101 app, created by the CSN, is available for the iPhone and iPad to further help people track their sodium consumption.
Conferences and meetings
Each year the CSN works in partnership with the Canadian Stroke Consortium and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada to host the Canadian Stroke Congress. This annual Congress brings together nearly a thousand delegates from various disciplines, including physicians, nurses, students and rehabilitation specialists. The inaugural Congress was held in Quebec City, Quebec in 2010, and was in Ottawa, Ontario the following year. The 2012 Congress will be hosted in Calgary, Alb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huanca%20District | Huanca District is one of twenty districts of the province Caylloma in Peru. 1450 people live in Huanca District to status data as June 30, 2015 .
See also
Ch'uwaña
Yuraq Apachita
References
Districts of the Caylloma Province
Districts of the Arequipa Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Sp%C3%A4rck%20Jones | Karen Spärck Jones (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) was a self-taught programmer and a pioneering British computer scientist responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency (IDF), a technology that underlies most modern search engines. She was an advocate for women in the field of computer science. She even came up with a slogan: “Computing is too important to be left to men.” In 2019, The New York Times published her belated obituary in its series Overlooked, calling her "a pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field." From 2008, to recognize her achievements in the fields of information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP), the Karen Spärck Jones Award is awarded to a new recipient with outstanding research in one or both of her fields.
Early life and education
Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Her parents were Alfred Owen Jones, a chemistry lecturer, and Ida Spärck, who worked for the Norwegian government while in exile in London during World War II.
Spärck Jones was educated at a grammar school in Huddersfield and then from 1953 to 1956 at Girton College, Cambridge, studying history, with an additional final year in Moral Sciences (philosophy). While at Cambridge, Spärck Jones joined the organization known as the Cambridge Language Research Unit (CLRU) and met the head of CLRU Margaret Masterman, who would inspire her to go into computer science. Through her work at the CLRU, Spärck-Jones began pursuing her Ph.D. At the time of submission, her Ph.D thesis was cast aside as uninspired and lacking original thought but was later published in its entirety as a book. She briefly became a school teacher, before moving into computer science. Spärck Jones married fellow Cambridge computer scientist Roger Needham in 1958.
Career
Spärck Jones worked at the Cambridge Language Research Unit from the late 1950s, then at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory from 1974 until her retirement in 2002.
From 1999, she held the post of Professor of Computers and Information. Prior to 1999, she was employed on a series of short-term contracts. She continued to work in the Computer Laboratory until shortly before her death. Her publications include nine books and numerous papers. A full list of her publications is available from the Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
Spärck Jones' main research interests, since the late 1950s, were natural language processing and information retrieval. In 1964, Spärck Jones published “Synonymy and Semantic Classification,” which is now seen as a foundational paper in the field of natural language processing. But, one of her most important contributions was the concept of inverse document frequency (IDF) weighting in information retrieval, which she introduced in a 1972 paper. IDF is used in most search engines today, usually as part of the term frequency–inverse document frequency (TF–IDF) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmelin%20database | The Gmelin database is a large database of organometallic and inorganic compounds updated quarterly. It is based on the German publication Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie ("Gmelin's Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry") which was originally published by Leopold Gmelin in 1817; the last print edition, the 8th, appeared in the 1990s. Although published over many decades, the printed series was not uniform in coverage or currency. Some elements are represented only by decades-old and not updated slim summary volumes. Others (Fe, B, S, F, U, etc.) have numerous supplements. Most later supplement volumes focused on an element's organic complexes. Each volume lists its literature coverage date.
The database currently contains every compound/reaction discovered between 1772 and 1995, amounting to 1.5 million compounds and 1.3 million different reactions, with over 85,000 titles, keywords and abstracts. It has over 800 different data fields on subjects such as the compounds' electric, magnetic, thermal, crystal and physiological information.
The Gmelin database is maintained by Elsevier MDL. It is the sister database to the Beilstein database, which deals with organic chemicals and reactions; both are now part of the Reaxys system. The Gmelin database is less complete and less up-to-date than the handbook; the printed book is consequently kept available.
References
External links
Gmelin's Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry 1905-1915 (in German) Vol. I/1 Vol. I/2 Vol. I/3 Vol. II/1 Vol. II/2 Vol. III/1 Vol. III/1b Vol. III/2 Vol. IV/1 Vol. IV/2 Vol. V/1 Vol. V/1b Vol. V/2 Vol. V/3
Chemical databases
Inorganic chemistry
Organometallic chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ill%20Wind%20%28film%29 | Ill Wind () is a 2007 French film written and directed by Stéphane Allagnon. Sent to repair the computers at a supermarket in a town hit by a storm, a technician discovers some unusual things and is faced with difficult decisions.
Plot
Stephane Allagnon's crime comedy Before the Storm stars Jonathan Zaccai as Frank, a tech worker assigned to fix the aged computer system of a store after a weather incident knocked it out. During the work, he uncovers a piece of code that embezzled money from the company. When the number one suspect turns up dead, Frank finds himself trying to piece together who is responsible with the help of some quirky locals.
References
External links
Variety review by Eddie Cockrell
Answers.com by Perry Seibert
2007 films
French crime comedy films
2000s French-language films
2000s French films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unnatural%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "The Unnatural" is the 19th episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, which first aired on April 25, 1999, on the Fox network. Written and directed by lead actor David Duchovny, the episode is tangentially connected to the wider mythology of The X-Files, but narratively functions as a "Monster-of-the-Week" story. "The Unnatural" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.1, and its first broadcast was watched by 16.88 million people. The episode received positive reviews from critics, and was well-liked by members of the cast and crew, including series creator Chris Carter and co-star Gillian Anderson.
The series centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called "X-Files". Mulder is a believer; although the skeptical Scully was initially assigned to debunk his work, the two have developed a deep friendship. In this episode, Arthur Dales (M. Emmet Walsh), the brother of a previously recurring retired FBI agent with the same name, tells Mulder the story of a black baseball player who played for the Roswell Grays in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 under the pseudonym "Josh Exley" (Jesse L. Martin). Exley was actually an alien with a love of baseball. Exley is later tracked down by the Alien Bounty Hunter (Brian Thompson) and executed for betraying his people.
Among other things, the episode was inspired by the history of baseball in Roswell, as well as the infamous 1947 Roswell Incident. Jesse Martin was offered the lead guest role as Exley after Duchovny noticed him in a production of the musical Rent and an episode of Ally McBeal. Originally, Darren McGavin reprised his role as Arthur Dales, but after he suffered a stroke, he was replaced by Walsh. Many of the outdoor baseball scenes were filmed at Jay Littleton Ballfield, an all-wood stadium located in Ontario, California. The episode has been critically examined for its use of literary motifs, its fairy tale-like structure, and its themes concerning racism and alienation.
Plot
In 1947, a mixed group of black and white men play baseball in Roswell, New Mexico. A group of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members arrive on horseback, seeking one of the players: Josh Exley (Jesse L. Martin), a talented black baseball player. Men from the team fight back against the KKK, and when the mask of the clan's leader is taken off, the leader is revealed to be an alien.
In 1999, FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) look through Roswell newspapers from the 1940s. Mulder spots an article showing a young Arthur Dales (Fredric Lehne)—the original investigator of the X-Files division—Josh Exley, and the shape-shifting Alien Bounty Hunter (Brian Thompson). Mulder seeks out Dales in Washington D.C. but instead, meets Dales's brother (M. Emmet Walsh), who is also named Arthur.
In flashback, Dales tells Mulder about first meeting Exley in 1947. Dales, a member of the Ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%20Mindfulness%20Institute | The Prison Mindfulness Institute (previously the Prison Dharma Network) is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 with the mission of supporting prisoners and prison volunteers in transformation through meditation and contemplative spirituality in prisons. The organization provides books and resources through its "Books Behind Bars" program, publishes books on prison dharma through their Prison Dharma Press, and offers a facilitator training for prison volunteers called "Path of Freedom." The organization supports prisoners in the study and practice of contemplative traditions and mindfulness awareness practices. It is an affiliate of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and the Zen Peacemakers.
Philosophically, the organization claims to encourage restorative justice and transformative justice models over retributive justice.
The organization lists as its spiritual advisors Robert Baker Aitken Roshi, Pema Chödrön, Rabbi David Cooper, Roshi Bernie Glassman, Roshi Joan Halifax, Father Thomas Keating, Jack Kornfield, Stephen Levine, John Daido Loori, Thrangu Rinpoche, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, Ven.Thubten Chodron, and Jon Kabat-Zinn.
History
The organization was founded by Fleet Maull in 1989 when he was serving a 14-year sentence for drug trafficking. He had spent significant time studying and practicing meditation in the tradition of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He also completed a master's degree in psychology at Naropa University before his conviction and then incarceration in 1985. While in prison he completed his ngöndro by cleaning out a small prison closet to do prostrations, received Vajrayogini initiation from Thrangu Rinpoche who visited the prison.
He also pursued a Ph.D. in Psychology and began a prison hospice program for prisoners with AIDS. The program formally incorporated in 1991 as the National Prison Hospice Association and became an authorized training program for hospice. While conducting the hospice program, he served time at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners (MCFP) in Springfield, Missouri, the hospital for federal prisoners. He was released in May 1999. He was also ordained as a priest and Zen teacher in the Zen Peacemakers Sangha of Bernie Glassman.
Prison Dharma Network has been run since 1999 by Executive Director K.Vita Pires-Crisp, Ph.D.
Other Projects of the nonprofit are the Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety project websiteand the Engaged Mindfulness Institute project website
The organization has a Prison Mindfulness podcast on Podbean. *
See also
Richard Geller
The Dhamma Brothers
Further reading
References
External links
Organization's website
Organization's social network
Religious prison-related organizations
Buddhist meditation
Mindfulness movement
Religious organizations established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20School%20of%20the%20Medes | The Classical School of the Medes (CSM) is a private English-based network of schools operating in the Kurdistan region. The headmaster is Mr. Yousif Matty.
History
CSM began in response to requests from local church and government authorities to establish a school with English-based curriculum and international training support. The first CSM opened in The City Of Slemani in January 2001 and now enrolls 1000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. A second CSM opened in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan in the fall of 2002 and now enrolls 600 students (K1-G12). In September 2003, a third CSM campus opened in Hawler which enrolls 1400 students (K-1-G12
).
Students
Over 95 percent of the students come from Kurdish Muslim families, with the remainder from Catholic Christians, Orthodox Christians, Evangelical Protestants, and other backgrounds. Many students are children of local government officials and community leaders.
Model of education
CSM schools draw from the classical educational model and use English-based curriculum for most subjects; supplemental classes are taught in Kurdish and Arabic. The students take general SAT test during their high school years and AP Exams as of 2020
The passing grade for AP tests is 3 and for the SAT general is 400.
Staff
American staff typically teach one or two courses per semester, with the balance of their time spent in relationships with students, their families, and community contacts. All curriculum development, international staffing, and training is coordinated through Servant Group International, a US-based non-profit Christian organization.
Subjects
Educators in America compile the program curriculum. Curriculum and supplies are shipped from America to Iraq each summer.
Core subjects include:
English language
Kurdish language
Arabic language
Mathematics
Science (usually branch per school year)
Humanities (emphasis on Ancient Mesopotamian, Roman and Greek history)
Geography (for students of Grades 3, 4, and 5)
Maps (for students of Grades 1, 2, and 6)
Fairness (for students of K-G 2 and Grades 1, 2, 3, 4 )
French and Spanish for Grades 9 and 10
Linguistics (Grade 11)
Mathematics level 2 (Senior year)
Celebrations
Dress Up Party (October 30 or 31)
Thanksgiving (last Thursday of November)
Valentine (February 12 or 14)
Newroz Party (March 8)
Spring Picnic (leaving April)
Christmas Party (December 25th)
Easter Party
Median Ink
The Median Ink is the second English newspaper and the first school newspaper in Kurdistan, run by the high-schoolers and sold to everyone. An issue comes out every month and talks about in-school happenings and famous events outside school. The price of each issue is about 1000 IQD.
References
External links
Medes School
Education in Kurdistan Region (Iraq)
Schools in Iraq
Educational institutions established in 2001
2001 establishments in Iraqi Kurdistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.hn | Gigabit Home Networking (G.hn) is a specification for wired home networking that supports speeds up to 2 Gbit/s and operates over four types of legacy wires: telephone wiring, coaxial cables, power lines and plastic optical fiber. Some benefits of a multi-wire standard are lower equipment development costs and lower deployment costs for service providers (by allowing customer self-install).
G.hn offers enhanced immunity to power line disturbances compared to other connection technologies. It serves as a bridge, connecting older systems prevalent in industrial settings with modern technologies that can revolutionize operations. While many machines and devices have transitioned to wireless, wired legacy systems remain integral for communication in industrial contexts. In the industrial realm, swift and dependable connectivity is crucial for seamless machine-to-machine interactions. Absence of this can lead to operational halts or reduced service quality. G.hn stands as a pivotal infrastructure for time-sensitive and safety-critical tasks, boasting strong features that support vital communications and a network's ability to auto-recover.
History
G.hn was developed under the International Telecommunication Union's Telecommunication Standardization sector (the ITU-T) and promoted by the HomeGrid Forum and several other organizations. ITU-T Recommendation (the ITU's term for standard) G.9960, which received approval on October 9, 2009, specified the physical layers and the architecture of G.hn. The Data Link Layer (Recommendation G.9961) was approved on June 11, 2010.
Prominent organizations, including CEPca, HomePNA, and UPA, who were creators of some of these interfaces, rallied behind the latest version of the standard, emphasizing its potential and significance in the home networking domain. Moreover, the ITU-T extended the technology with multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) technology to increase data rates and signaling distance. This new feature was approved in March 2012 under G.9963 Recommendation.
The development and promotion of G.hn have been significantly supported by the HomeGrid Forum and several other organizations. The technology was not only designed to address home-networking challenges but also found applications beyond this initial scope, showcasing its versatility and potential in the networking domain.
Technical specifications
Technical overview
G.hn specifies a single physical layer based on fast Fourier transform (FFT) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation and low-density parity-check code (LDPC) forward error correction (FEC) code. G.hn includes the capability to notch specific frequency bands to avoid interference with amateur radio bands and other licensed radio services. G.hn includes mechanisms to avoid interference with legacy home networking technologies and also with other wireline systems such as VDSL2 or other types of DSL used to access the home.
OFDM systems split the transmitted sig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20O.%20Chua | Leon Ong Chua (; ; born June 28, 1936) is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is a professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1971. He has contributed to nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural network theory.
He is the inventor and namesake of Chua's circuit one of the first and most widely known circuits to exhibit chaotic behavior, and was the first to conceive the theories behind, and postulate the existence of, the memristor. Thirty-seven years after he predicted its existence, a working solid-state memristor was created by a team led by R. Stanley Williams at Hewlett Packard.
Alongside Tamas Roska, Chua also introduced the first algorithmically programmable analog cellular neural network (CNN) processor.
Early life and education
A first-generation Filipino-Chinese-American, Chua and his twin sister grew up as members of the Hokkien Chinese ethnic minority in the Philippines under the reign of the Empire of Japan during World War II. Of Hoklo ancestry, his parents immigrated from Jinjiang, Southern Fujian province. In 1959, he earned his BSEE degree from Mapúa Institute of Technology in Manila, Philippines. He briefly taught at Mapúa for a year, before emigrating to the United States on a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned an MSEE degree in 1961. He then earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1964. His PhD thesis was entitled Nonlinear Network Analysis—The Parametric Approach. Over the ensuing years, he has received eight honorary doctorates.
Chua has four daughters; the eldest, Amy Chua (a professor of law at Yale University), Katrin (a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University), and Cynthia (Cindy, a Special Olympics Gold medalist), and Michelle. In addition to his four daughters, Chua has seven grandchildren.
Career
Chua was a member of the faculty at Purdue University from 1964 to 1970 before joining Berkeley in 1971. His current research interests include cellular neural networks, nonlinear networks, nonlinear circuits and systems, nonlinear dynamics, bifurcation theory, and chaos theory. He was the editor of The International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos until 2009, and is now the honorary editor.
Awards and honors
Member of the Academy of Europe, http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Chua_Leon
Doctor Honoris Causa from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (1983)
Honorary doctorate from the University of Tokushima, Japan (1984)
Honorary doctorate from the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (1992)
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary (1994)
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1995)
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (1996)
Doctor Honoris Causa from the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, Romania (199 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman%20%281979%20video%20game%29 | Superman is a video game programmed by John Dunn for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls Superman, whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find three pieces of a bridge that was destroyed by Lex Luthor, capture Luthor and his criminal gang, and return to the Daily Planet building. The game world is populated by antagonists such as a helicopter that re-arranges the bridge pieces and roving kryptonite satellites that cause Superman to revert into Clark Kent.
Atari was owned by Warner Communications, which was also the parent company of Superman publisher DC Comics. Following the financial success of the film Superman (1978), Atari asked programmer Warren Robinett to adapt his prototype of Adventure (1980) into a Superman game. Robinett was not interested, but he gave some of his code to Dunn, who agreed to do the game if he could have four kilobytes of space for the cartridge, as opposed to the usual two kilobytes.
Superman received positive reviews on its release from the publications Video and The Space Gamer who proclaimed it as one of the best games from Atari while noting its high quality graphics and unique gameplay. Some retrospective reviews lamented that the game only used the character of Superman for his more action-oriented abilities, while others continued to praise the game's unique gameplay and high-quality Atari 2600 graphics.
Gameplay
Superman is a video game in which the player controls Clark Kent and his superhero alias Superman. On hearing about a bomb scare in Metropolis, Kent examines the situation and finds Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor leaving the scene as the waterfront bridge explodes. The goal is to repair the bridge, which has split into three parts, capture Luthor, and return to the Daily Planet as Kent in the shortest time possible. Superman can be damaged by kryptonite satellites; if they touch him, he loses his ability to fly and can only be revived by interacting with Lois Lane. A helicopter moves around Metropolis occasionally moving parts of the bridge around the map. To capture a crook or carry bridge pieces, the player must fly into them to grab them and release them by landing. Luthor and his henchmen are placed in jail by flying them into the jail bars while carrying them.
The game was made prior to the introduction of side-scrolling, leading to the player moving from screen to screen and arriving on the next frame for them to enter a new block of Metropolis. A miniature radar consisting of six markers representing city blocks is displayed at the top of the playfield, with the largest marker showing the proximity the player is to the potential targets of Luthor or one of his henchmen. Each of these areas is connected on four adjoining sides, which can be traversed by flying up, down, left and right through the screens. The player can traverse through different subway entrances for quicker travel. After entering, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberformance | Cyberformance refers to live theatrical performances in which remote participants are enabled to work together in real time through the medium of the internet, employing technologies such as chat applications or purpose-built, multiuser, real-time collaborative software (for example, UpStage, Visitors Studio, the Waterwheel Tap, MOOs, and other platforms). Cyberformance is also known as online performance, networked performance, telematic performance, and digital theatre; there is as yet no consensus on which term should be preferred, but cyberformance has the advantage of compactness. For example, it is commonly employed by users of the UpStage platform to designate a special type of Performance art activity taking place in a cyber-artistic environment.
Cyberformance can be created and presented entirely online, for a distributed online audience who participate via internet-connected computers anywhere in the world, or it can be presented to a proximal audience (such as in a physical theatre or gallery venue) with some or all of the performers appearing via the internet; or it can be a hybrid of the two approaches, with both remote and proximal audiences and/or performers.
History and context
The term 'cyberformance' (a portmanteau word blending 'cyberspace' with 'performance') was coined by the net artist and curator Helen Varley Jamieson. She states that the invention of this term in 2000 "came out of the need to find a word that avoided the polarisation of virtual and real, and the need for a new term (rather than 'online performance' or 'virtual theatre') for a new genre". Jamieson traces the history of cyberformance back to the Satellite Arts Project of 1977, when interactive art pioneers Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz used live video mixing to create what they called "a performance space with no geographic boundaries".
Online performances or virtual theatre has taken place in a number of the virtual environments that have emerged since the 1980s, including the multi-user virtual environments known as MUDs and MOOs in the 1970s, internet chat spaces (e.g. Internet Relay Chat, or IRC) in the 1980s, the Palace graphical chatroom in the 1990s, and UpStage, Visitors Studio, Second Life, Waterwheel Tap and other platforms in the 2000s. Notable cyberformance groups and projects thus far include:
The Hamnet Players. Founded by Stuart Harris, this group performed in IRC; their earliest performance was "Hamnet" in 1993.
The Plaintext Players. Founded by Antoinette LaFarge, this group performs in MOOs and mixed reality spaces; their earliest performance was "Christmas" in 1994.
"ParkBench." Created by Nina Sobell and Emily Hartzell in 1994, this was a collaborative performance and drawing space using live video and a web browser interface.
Desktop Theater. Founded by Adriene Jenik and Lisa Brenneis, this group performed in the Palace; an example of their work is "waitingforgodot.com", 1997.
Avatar Body Collision. Founded by Helen Varle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Country%20Limited | The Lake Country Limited was a short-lived Amtrak route which connected Chicago, Illinois with Janesville, Wisconsin. The route was part of Amtrak's Network Growth Strategy, which envisioned an expanded role for mail and express business. The Lake Country Limited would have exchanged goods with a new Chicago–Philadelphia train named the Skyline Connection, which in the end never began operation. The previous time when there was interstate train service along the route was the era immediately before Amtrak (April 30, 1971) when the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) operated the Sioux and the Varsity trains.
Route
Trains originated at Chicago's Union Station and ran north over the tracks of Metra's Milwaukee District / North Line. Northwest of Fox Lake, Illinois, it ran over tracks owned by the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad and the state of Wisconsin to a temporary platform outside of Janesville. The poor condition of the Fox Lake–Janesville stretch limited trains to .
The initial route was Chicago–Glenview–Janesville; on June 15, 2000, an additional stop was added at Zenda, Wisconsin to serve Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, a popular resort community. The train consisted of one diesel engine, one coach car, and one non-powered control unit (NPCU).
References
External links
2000 timetable
Former Amtrak routes
Railway services introduced in 2000
Railway services discontinued in 2001
Passenger rail transportation in Illinois
Passenger rail transportation in Wisconsin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20incarceration%20rate | According to the latest available data at the World Prison Brief on May 7, 2023, the United States has the sixth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 531 people per 100,000. Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations. State and federal prison and local jail incarcerations dropped by 14% from 2.1 million in 2019 to 1.8 million in mid-2020. In 2018, the United States had the highest incarceration rate in the world.
While the United States represents about 4.2 percent of the world's population, it houses around 20 percent of the world's prisoners. Corrections (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) cost around $74 billion in 2007 according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). According to the Justice Expenditures and Employment in the United States, 2017 report release by BJS, it is estimated that county and municipal governments spent roughly US$30 billion on corrections in 2017.
As of their March 2023 publication, the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-profit organization for decarceration, estimated that in the United States, about 1.9 million people were or are currently incarcerated. Of those who were incarcerated, 1,047,000 people were in state prison, 514,000 in local jails, 209,000 in federal prisons, 36,000 in youth correctional facilities, 34,000 in immigration detention camps, 22,000 in involuntary commitment, 8,000 in territorial prisons, 2,000 in Indian Country jails, and 1,000 in United States military prisons. The data is from various years depending on what is the latest available data.
Prison and jail population
Total U.S. incarceration (prisons and jails) peaked in 2008. Total correctional population peaked in 2007. If all prisoners are counted (including those juvenile, territorial, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (immigration detention), Indian country, and military), then in 2008 the United States had around 24.7% of the world's 9.8 million prisoners.
In 2009, the United States had the highest documented incarceration rate in the world, at 754 per 100,000. However, following over a decade of decarceration, the prison population had declined from a 2008 peak of 2,307,504 to 1,675,400 (500 per 100,000). This has resulted in a decline to the 6th highest incarceration rate of 505 per 100,000.
This number comprises local jails with a nominal capacity of 907,700 inmates occupied at 60.5%, state prisons with a nominal capacity of 1,121,402 occupied at 86.9%, and federal prisons with a nominal capacity of 134,133 occupied at 112.8%. Of this number, 23.3% are pretrial detainees (2019), 10.2% are female prisoners (2019), 0.2% are juveniles (2019), and 7.3% are foreign prisoners (2019).
The imprisonment rate varies widely by state; Louisiana surpasses this by about 100%, but Maine incarcerates at about a fifth this rate. A report released 28 February 2008, indicates that more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States are in pri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20chaining | Method chaining is a common syntax for invoking multiple method calls in object-oriented programming languages. Each method returns an object, allowing the calls to be chained together in a single statement without requiring variables to store the intermediate results.
Rationale
Local variable declarations are syntactic sugar.
Method chaining eliminates an extra variable for each intermediate step. The developer is saved from the cognitive burden of naming the variable and keeping the variable in mind.
Method chaining has been referred to as producing a "train wreck" due to the increase in the number of methods that come one after another in the same line that occurs as more methods are chained together.
A similar syntax is method cascading, where after the method call the expression evaluates to the current object, not the return value of the method. Cascading can be implemented using method chaining by having the method return the current object itself. Cascading is a key technique in fluent interfaces, and since chaining is widely implemented in object-oriented languages while cascading isn't, this form of "cascading-by-chaining by returning " is often referred to simply as "chaining". Both chaining and cascading come from the Smalltalk language.
While chaining is syntax, it has semantic consequences, namely that requires methods to return an object, and if implementing cascading via chaining, this must be the current object. This prevents the return value from being used for some other purpose, such as returning an error value.
Examples
A common example is iostream in C++, where for example << returns the left object, allowing chaining.
Compare:
a << b << c;
equivalent to:
a << b;
a << c;
Another example in JavaScript uses the built-in methods of Array:
somethings
.filter(x => x.count > 10)
.sort((a, b) => a.count - b.count)
.map(x => x.name)
See also
Fluent interface
Pipeline (Unix)
Nesting (computing)
Builder pattern
Pyramid of doom (programming)
References
External links
Creating DSLs in Java using method chaining concept
Method Chaining in PHP
Method (computer programming)
Articles with example C++ code
Articles with example Ruby code
Articles with example Java code
Articles with example PHP code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20theory%20of%20composition | Commonly called new media theory or media-centered theory of composition, stems from the rise of computers as word processing tools. Media theorists now also examine the rhetorical strengths and weakness of different media, and the implications these have for literacy, author, and reader.
New media defined
The meaning of the term 'new media' can be confusing and debated over. At times extended to mean any sort of media that is not purely written-text-based, it generally refers to any medium that is technologically 'advanced' from pure text. The broadness of the term is useful in that it allows for the multiple modes that can be encompassed by this definition, instead of being focused on the technical aspect that the term 'digital' would invite. With this in mind, though, terms like 'digital', 'hyper-textual', 'interactive', 'simulated', 'virtual', and 'networked' can often be helpful when thinking about what constitutes new media. However, there is often a false dichotomy drawn between the 'analogue' media and the 'new' media; media theory invites re-mediation of texts, which often result in a mix of mediums. Gunther Kress remarks on the new responsibilities of writers:
"In the new theory of representation, in the present technological context of electronic, multimodal, multimedia textual production, the task of text-makers is that of complex orchestration. Further, individuals are now seen as remakers, transformers, of sets of representational resources... ."
Theoretical construct
Noted scholar in the field, Cynthia Selfe, has frequently commented on the exigency of incorporating new media in the writing classroom, noting its ability to make students rhetorically aware of the arguments that they commonly take for granted based on medium. She states,
"Composition teachers, language arts teachers, and other literacy specialists need to recognize that the relevance of technology in the English studies disciplines is not simply a matter of helping students work effectively with communication software and hardware, but, rather, also a matter of helping them to understand and to be able to assess – to pay attention to – the social, economic, and pedagogical implications of new communication technologies and technological initiatives that affect their lives."
Richard Ohmann extends this argument, saying, "Adults ignorant of computers will soon be as restricted as those who today are unable to read. Software will become the language of the future, and the dominant intellectual asset of the human race, so that an understanding of software will be a primary component of literacy in the electronic age".
Holding intersections with rhetorical theory, new media theory focuses on how different mediums work rhetorically within various contexts. It subscribes to Marshall McLuhan's coined phrase "the medium is the message", or rather, that a message's content is just as important as the medium that delivers it in affecting how the message is received. A larg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20query%20%28database%29 | A range query is a common database operation that retrieves all records where some value is between an upper and lower boundary. For example, list all employees with 3 to 5 years' experience. Range queries are unusual because it is not generally known in advance how many entries a range query will return, or if it will return any at all. Many other queries, such as the top ten most senior employees, or the newest employee, can be done more efficiently because there is an upper bound to the number of results they will return. A query that returns exactly one result is sometimes called a singleton.
Partial match query
Match at least one of the requested keys.
B+ tree
k-d tree
R-tree
See also
Range searching
References
Databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%20Bruce%20Health%20Services | Grey Bruce Health Services is a hospital network in Grey and Bruce counties in Ontario, Canada.
It operates six hospitals sites, including the 400-bed Owen Sound Regional Hospital. The other five hospitals are Lion's Head Hospital, Markdale Hospital, Meaford Hospital, Southampton Hospital and Wiarton Hospital.
As of 2022, the Chief Executive Officer was Gary Sims.
Gallery
See also
List of hospitals in Canada
References
External links
Official website
Medical and health organizations based in Ontario
Hospital networks in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firstfruits | FIRSTFRUITS is a United States counterintelligence program and database that tracks unauthorized disclosures of intelligence material in the news media. The project's goal is to reduce losses of collection capability due to journalists. The database was created by the US Central Intelligence Agency, but then transferred to US National Security Agency. The database has thousands of unofficial and negative articles and authors. Maintenance of the program was outsourced to third parties like Booz Allen Hamilton. The program became known through whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Joseph J. Brand, a senior US National Security Agency (NSA) official, was a leading advocate of a crackdown on leaks from whistleblowers in the US. In 2001 the NSA created a department and staffed it with "leak trackers." The CIA hired a contractor "to build [a] foreign knowledge database". The program was funded by the CIA. The name played on the phrase "the fruits of our labor".
According to Brand, "Adversaries know more about SIGINT sources and methods today than ever before,". Brand noted some disclosures came from the U.S. government's own official communications; and other secrets were acquired by foreign spies. But "most often these disclosures occur through the media." Brand listed four "flagrant media leakers" in his presentation: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Times. Journalist tracked in the database include Bill Gertz, Seymour Hersh, James Bamford, James Risen, Vernon Loeb, John C. K. Daly, and Barton Gellman.
Journalist in the database are tracked by the intelligence agency with regular reports going to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice for possible prosecution.
Controversy
According to Barton Gellman, ''"Brand's accounting — like many of the government's public assertions — left something to be desired:
... the most frequent accusation invoked in debates about whether journalists cause “impairment” to the U.S. government is that it was journalists’ fault that the U.S. lost access to Osama bin Laden’s satellite-phone communications in the late 1990s. It is hard to overstate the centrality of this episode to the intelligence community’s lore about the news media. The accusation, as best as I can ascertain, was first made publicly in 2002 by then–White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. After a newspaper reported that the NSA could listen to Osama bin Laden on his satellite phone, as Fleischer put it, the al‑Qaeda leader abandoned the device. President Bush and a long line of other officials reprised this assertion in the years to come.
But the tale of the busted satellite-phone surveillance is almost certainly untrue. The story in question said nothing about U.S. eavesdropping. And one day before it was published, the United States launched barrages of cruise missiles against al‑Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and a factory in Sudan, including a facility that bin Laden had recently v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawmill%20%28software%29 | Sawmill is a software package for the statistical analysis and reporting of log files, with dynamic contextual filtering, live data zooming, user interface customization, and custom calculated reports. Sawmill also incorporates real-time reporting and alerting. Sawmill has been available since 1997.
Sawmill provides support for approximately 850 server log file formats, with new formats added on request. Sawmill also includes a page-tagging server and JavaScript page tag for the analysis of client side clicks (client requests) providing a total view of visitor traffic and on-site behavioral activity.
Sawmill Analytics is offered in three forms: a software package for user deployment, a system appliance for use on-premises, and an application for software as a service (SaaS). Sawmill analyzes any device or software package, producing a log file that includes web servers, firewalls, proxy servers, mail servers, network devices, syslog servers, and databases.
Sawmill is the OEM reporting engine sold by Blue Coat Systems as a bundled part of their proxy server product. Branded versions of Sawmill include Sawmill for IronPort by Cisco Systems, InterGate Intelligence by Vicomsoft Ltd, and SonicWALL Aventail Advanced Reporting by SonicWALL.
Sawmill was a second runner-up in the 2009 Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards.
Sawmill is listed in the Ideal Observer's Web Analytics Tool Overview.
See also
Log analysis
List of web analytics software
Sawzall (programming language)
References
External links
http://www.sawmill.net, for universal web log analysis and reporting.
http://www.sawmill.co.uk, Distribution, training, sales and support for the EMEA region.
comparison of analytics software from AWStats documentation
PC Magazine review of Sawmill 6 from 2001, retrieved 2009-11-27
Tiscali review of Sawmill 7 from Information Management Magazine, September 1, 2008. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
Web analytics
Web log analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisTrails | VisTrails is a scientific workflow management system developed at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah that provides support for data exploration and visualization. It is written in Python and employs Qt via PyQt bindings. The system is open source, released under the GPL v2 license. The pre-compiled versions for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux come with an installer and several packages, including VTK, matplotlib, and ImageMagick. VisTrails also supports user-defined packages.
Overview
VisTrails is a new system that provides provenance management support for exploratory
computational tasks. It combines features of workflow and visualization systems. Similar to
workflow systems, it allows the combination of loosely coupled resources, specialized libraries,
and grid and Web services. Similar to some visualization systems, it provides a mechanism
for parameter exploration and comparison of different results. But unlike these other systems,
VisTrails was designed to manage exploratory processes in which computational tasks evolve
over time as a user iteratively formulates and tests hypotheses. A key distinguishing feature of
VisTrails is its comprehensive provenance infrastructure that maintains detailed history information
about the steps followed in the course of an exploratory task. VisTrails leverages this
information to provide novel operations and user interfaces that streamline this process.
VisTrails has been developed for exploratory visualization, but the system is general, and provides
functionality in the following areas:
Flexible provenance architecture.
Querying and re-using history.
Support for collaborative exploration.
Extensibility.
Scalable derivation of data products, parameter exploration, multi-view and comparative visualization.
History
VisTrails is the result of a collaborative effort between computer scientists Cláudio Silva and Juliana Freire. Initial development began in 2004 by graduate students at the University of Utah. Although the first prototypes were implemented in C++, the current version of VisTrails is written in Python. The first public release was in September 2007.
Functionality
A common use for VisTrails is scientific visualization. Visualizations generated as part of a workflow are rendered in a spreadsheet-style interface, allowing multiple visualizations from different versions of a workflow to be viewed and compared simultaneously. The VisTrails spreadsheet currently supports VTK and HTML rendering.
VisTrails supports four basic modes, or views. Each view interacts with the underlying workflow in a different way.
The Pipeline view lets the user create, view and edit a visual pipeline of a workflow. The pipelines are typically rendered from top to bottom, with each module's output connecting to the input of the module(s) below it. A module corresponds roughly to a data type or a function.
The History view displays a tree structure representing the various |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Harris%20%28entrepreneur%29 | Mike Harris is a Welsh businessman and football chairman. He is the founder of Total Network Solutions, a telecom solutions provider that was acquired by British Telecom in 2005. In 2013, he founded SiFi Networks to provide open access Internet in North America.
Since the late 90s, he has been involved with The New Saints F.C., becoming the clubs chairman in 2003. In the past two decades, Harris has built one of the most successful clubs in European football. The New Saints broke Ajax's top flight record of consecutive wins, after recording 27 wins in a row in 2016.
Education & early career
Harris was born in Welshpool in Wales. He attended Buttington Trewern County Primary School, before Welshpool High School. He left school aged 16, securing an apprenticeship with British Telecom. The apprenticeship lasted three years, where he specialised as a strowger engineer. Around this time, he moved to Shrewsbury to work as part of the maintenance team for BT's telephone exchange.
Business career
Total Network Solutions (1987-2005)
Harris worked in telephone maintenance, including trouble shooting, and in BT’s computer centers implementing distributed data to the desktop until the late 1980s, when System X was introduced as a digital switching system to modernise the exchange. Harris saw a gap in the market where businesses were introducing voice and data systems to the desktop and saw the opportunity to set up his own business. Harris collaborated with Roger Samuels while working on a project for one of his clients, adopting Harris’ vision. In 1991, they decided to merge the two consultancies to form Total Network Solutions (TNS).
Total Network Solutions continued to offer the consultancy service Harris had been doing since 1988, but also offered the design, implementation and maintenance of telecom solutions. The new approach was to take products and the consultancy, combine them to create solutions and then take responsibility for delivering the solutions to business. TNS achieved half a million turnover in its first year. He and co-founder Samuels imported technology from the United States, which gave the company an edge over other providers in both cost and the advanced technology. By 1993, TNS had grown to £18 million turnover and a staff of 120 people. TNS featured - on three separate occasions - in the Financial Times' Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies during this period.
In the mid-1990s, TNS began to maintain Cisco Systems. This allowed them to secure numerous notable clients such as the University of Bath, Abbey National Bank, and Heinz Foods. They installed high speed lines for various university campuses and other large site institutions such as hospitals or councils. TNS also supplied and maintained datacomms for many early internet providers in the UK, such as BusinessNet, AOL, and Level Three. In 2000, Harris became the sole owner of TNS after buying out his business partner Samuels.
Harris and TNS then played a major role in the r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby%20MRI | Matz's Ruby Interpreter or Ruby MRI (also called CRuby) was the reference implementation of the Ruby programming language named after Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"). Until the specification of the Ruby language in 2012, the MRI implementation was considered the de facto reference, especially since an independent attempt to create the specification (RubySpec) had failed. Starting with Ruby 1.9, and continuing with Ruby 2.x and above, the official Ruby interpreter has been YARV ("Yet Another Ruby VM").
Ruby 1.8 is that last version that uses MRI
History
Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz") started working on Ruby on February 24, 1993, and released it to the public in 1995. "Ruby" was named as a gemstone because of a joke within Matsumoto's circle of friends alluding to the name of the Perl programming language.
The 1.8 branch has been maintained until June 2013, and 1.8.7 releases have been released since April 2008. This version provides bug fixes, but also many Ruby feature enhancements.
The RubySpec project has independently created a large test suite that captures 1.8.6/1.8.7/1.9 behavior as a reference conformance tool. Ruby MRI 1.9.2 passed over 99% of RubySpec., MRI Ruby 2.2 crashed on one of the tests. As a result of the limited uptake by the MRI developers, RubySpec project has been discontinued as of end of 2014.
Licensing terms
Prior to release 1.9.3, the Ruby interpreter and libraries were distributed as dual-licensed free and open source software, under the GNU General Public License or the Ruby License. In release 1.9.3, Ruby's License has been changed from a dual license with GPLv2 to a dual license with the 2-clause BSD license.
Operating systems
Ruby MRI is available for the following operating systems (supported Ruby versions can be different):
Acorn RISC OS
Amiga
BeOS / Haiku
DOS (32-bit)
IBM i
Internet Tablet OS
Linux
Mac OS X
Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/2003/NT/XP/Vista/7/8/10
Microsoft Windows CE
MorphOS
OS/2
OpenVMS
Syllable
Symbian OS
Blue Gene/L compute node kernel
Most flavors of Unix
This list may not be exhaustive.
PowerPC64 performance Since version 2.2.1, Ruby MRI performance on PowerPC64 was improved.
Limitations
Commonly noted limitations include:
Backward compatibility Version 1.9 and 1.8 have slight semantic differences. The release of Ruby 2.0 sought to avoid such a conflict between different versions.
Threaded programs cannot use more than a single CPU core due to the Global interpreter lock.
See also
YARV
References
External links
Free compilers and interpreters
Free software programmed in C
Ruby (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Technology%2C%20Iraq | The University of Technology, Iraq is one of Iraq's largest universities. It is situated in the city of Baghdad, Iraq. The university is specialized in Engineering, Computer Sciences, and Applied Sciences and Technologies. It was founded in 1975.
History
The university started with steady scientific achievements. It was established in 1960 with the idea of establishing an Institute of Industrial Teachers, outlined by the Ministry of Education in cooperation with UNESCO, the founding of the Institute was declared on 22 January 1960, The course of studies was limited to five years after acquiring the high school graduate Certificate, in the subject of Engineering Applications, the first batch was accepted with 45 male students, all of whom were graduates of Industrial secondary Schools .
Since founding, the objectives of the Institute were identified by the need for Engineering Technologists, to work in the industrial sector, with emphasis on Engineering projects and Applications research labs, it was also charged with the task of preparing teachers to train professionals in the Industrial and Professional trades, aiming to solve the problems of availability of trainers and workers in those trades, and enabling specialists to manage departments and laboratories . The introduction of specialized learning sessions at the institute, was directed through recommendations and instructions of the Presiding Council of the Institute, and approved by the Ministry of Education.
As founded the Institute included the following sections:
Department of Materials Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Automotive Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Assembly
The name of the institute was changed, a few months after its inception, to the Higher Institute of Industrial Engineering, then subsequently renamed after an order by the Ministry of Higher Education, due to its increased importance and to reflect its advancement, and in agreement with UNESCO in 1967, to The Higher College of Industrial Engineering and subsequently amended to the college of Engineering Technology, while simultaneously annexed to the University of Baghdad, Final disengagement of the Faculty from the University of Baghdad, was issued by The decision to establish the University of Technology on 1 April 1975, by a Presidential Decree.
Academics
The University is composed of the following colleges and specializations:
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Civil Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering
Industrial and Metallurgy Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Architecture Engineering
Applied Sciences (Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, Laser, Material Science, Biotechnology, Applied Chemistry and Industrial Management)
Computer Science
Computers Engineering
Materials Engineering
Laser and Opticelectronics Engineering
Petrol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schematic-driven%20layout | Schematic driven layout is the concept in integrated circuit layout or PCB layout where the EDA software links the schematic and layout databases. It was one of the first big steps forward in layout software from the days when editing tools were simply handling drawn polygons.
Features
Schematic-driven layout allows for several features that make the layout designer's job easier and faster. One of the most important is that changes to the circuit schematic are easily translated to the layout. Another is that the connections between components in the schematic are graphically displayed in the layout ensuring work is correct by construction.
References
Clein, Dan. (2000). CMOS IC Layout. Newnes.
Electrical diagrams
Electronic design
de:Layoutentwurf (Elektrotechnik) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Robertson%20%28television%20announcer%29 | Donald Robertson (September 6, 1928 – January 8, 2021) was an American television announcer for the CBS television network. He was known as "The Voice Of CBS Sports", where he also voiced nearly every sporting event CBS had. Robertson also voiced the CBS network ID "This is CBS", along with promos for the sporting events that he would call.
Early life and career
Educated at University of North Carolina, he once sang in the glee club with Andy Griffith.
After working as a radio reporter throughout high school and college, Robertson received a degree in communications in 1950. He went into the Air Force after college and served in Korea. In 1953, he left military service and returned to broadcasting, working for radio and television markets in North and South Carolina and Connecticut.
Robertson once worked for WBTV-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina when he got his big break. In 1961, he had moved to WBT-AM, where "I think I was on the air all day," he said. He did news, weather and sports for a morning show, and hosted a mid-day interview show. He also did play-by-play sports announcing for Davidson College.
Robertson was in New York announcing a basketball game between the college and New York University at Madison Square Garden when a producer with CBS Sports Spectacular invited him to auditions that were taking place while he was in town.
About two days later, the station manager of WBT-AM came in and said, ‘Congratulations on your new job, Don.’ I didn't want them to know I was auditioning, but he said CBS had called to make sure it was okay to hire me. So that's how I found out I had a job with CBS," he said.
Ultimately, Robertson then moved to CBS Sports. Management there had decided they wanted one voice that viewers could associate with all their sporting events, and the voice they chose was his.
As he advanced his career, Robertson also raised a family with his wife Mary, whom he married in 1951 after knowing her for six months.
CBS Sports
Throughout his career, Robertson worked with Pat Summerall and Jack Whitaker. He voiced the World Series, The Masters, and every golf and tennis tournament for which CBS had the rights.
References
External links
Don Robertson: The Voice of Happy Retirement
Giving his voice a rest
Donald Robertson Obituary (1928 - 2021) - Asheville Citizen-Times
1928 births
2021 deaths
Radio and television announcers
American sports announcers
National Basketball Association broadcasters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Motorsport announcers
Association football commentators
Tennis commentators
Golf writers and broadcasters
National Football League announcers
Boxing commentators
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
National Hockey League broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohwia%20caudata | Ohwia caudata, formerly placed in the genus Desmodium (as D. caudatum), is a deciduous nitrogen fixing plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found in India, China, Taiwan and other parts of Asia. The shrub grows to a height of about tall. It is related to Arthroclianthus, Nephrodesmus and Hanslia. The leaves and roots of the plant are used as an insecticide.
References
Desmodieae
Fabales of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husky%20%28computer%29 | The DVW Husky is a handheld British rugged computer issued in 1981 by DVW Electronics.
The Husky was designed to be used in harsh conditions, such as wet and cold weather, by users such as the military. It is waterproof and can be dropped from a considerable height onto a hard surface without sustaining damage.
The computer is handheld, with a membrane keyboard similar to that of the ZX81, and a 32x4 alphanumeric LCD. The Husky's CPU is compatible with the Z80, and the computer has built-in Basic, 32K non-volatile RAM, and 16K ROM. It was initially manufactured in response to a request from Severn Trent and was later used by the Ministry of Defence in the Rapier Missile project.
It was superseded by the Husky Hunter in 1983. The Hunter has a chiclet keyboard, 40x8 display, 48K ROM, and up to 208K RAM. Several Husky variants existed for specific applications.
Reception
BYTE in 1985 described the Husky as "the first lap-held computer". The writer reported that the Hunter "makes every other computer that I've handled feel quite flimsy", and concluded that "not everyone needs one, but if you do, you really need one".
References
External links
Old Computers Museum
Portable computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNXR | WNXR (107.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Iron River, Wisconsin, the station is currently owned by Heartland Comm. License, LLC, and features programming from United Stations Radio Networks. It serves Ashland and Bayfield counties, and has a rimshot signal to the Duluth area.
The studios are at 2320 Ellis Avenue in Ashland. The transmitter site is on Spider Lake Road, south of Iron River, Wisconsin.
References
External links
NXR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwork | Dwork is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bernard Dwork (1923–1998), mathematician
Cynthia Dwork (born 1958), computer scientist
Debórah Dwork, historian
Johnny Dwork (born 1959), flying disc freestyle athlete, author, event producer, and artist
Melvin Dwork (1922–2016), American interior designer and LGBT activist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchberger | Buchberger may refer to:
People
Bruno Buchberger (born 1942), professor of computer mathematics at Johannes Kepler University
Hubert Buchberger (born 1951), German violinist, conductor and music university teacher
Kelly Buchberger (born 1966), Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player
Kerri Buchberger (born 1970), retired female volleyball player from Canada
Michael Buchberger (1874–1961), Roman Catholic priest
Walter Buchberger (1895–1970), Czechoslovak skier of German ethnicity
Other
Buchberger Leite, a gorge near Hohenau in the Lower Bavarian county of Freyung-Grafenau in Bavaria
Buchberger's algorithm, a method of transforming a given set of generators for a polynomial ideal into a Gröbner basis with respect to some monomial order |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Day%20%28journalist%29 | James Day (December 22, 1918 – April 24, 2008) was an American public television station and network executive and on-air interviewer, and professor of television broadcasting at Brooklyn College. Day was a co-founder, and the founding president and general manager, of pioneer San Francisco public television station KQED, and in 1969 became the final president of National Educational Television (NET) before it closed operations in 1970, making way for its successor, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Day then became general manager of NET's now-former flagship, New York PBS member station WNET. Day was an original PBS board member, and was also a founding board member of the Children's Television Workshop, creators and producers of Sesame Street, which quickly became a "flagship" children's program for public television.
Day was born in Alameda, California and died in New York City.
One of Day's innovations at KQED was the local news program Newsroom, developed in response to a strike in early 1968 by San Francisco newspaper workers; Newsroom launched the careers of several broadcast journalists, and as the first nightly news program on a public television station, was considered a primary influence and forerunner to what is now PBS NewsHour. (The program still airs, in slightly different form, on KQED to this day under the name KQED Newsroom.)
Day was also considered one of the originators of long-form, one-on-one interviews with various celebrities and public figures. He hosted two programs: Kaleidoscope while at KQED, and Day at Night, which he independently produced and syndicated after his 1973 resignation from WNET. Among the numerous figures interviewed by Day were Eleanor Roosevelt, Aldous Huxley, Irving Howe, Eric Hoffer in 1963, philosopher and author Ayn Rand in 1974 and Noam Chomsky.
Bibliography
References
James Day Papers
1918 births
2008 deaths
People from Alameda, California
American television journalists
PBS people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
American male journalists
Journalists from California
20th-century American journalists
Brooklyn College faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Carrier%20Detect | Data Carrier Detect (DCD) or Carrier Detect (CD) is a control signal present inside an RS-232 serial communications cable that goes between a computer and another device, such as a modem. This signal is a simple "high/low" status bit that is sent from a data communications equipment (DCE) to a data terminal equipment (DTE), i.e., from the modem or other peripheral to a computer in a typical scenario. It is present on virtually all PC serial ports - pin 1 of a nine-pin (DE9) serial port, or pin eight over a 25-pin (DB25) port. Its purpose varies depending on the device connected, but the most specific meaning is to indicate when a modem is connected to another remote modem via telephone lines.
The word "carrier" is a reference to the analog carrier signal generated by a modem, which is modulated to carry the data. On a data modem, the carrier's loss equates to the connection's termination.
Much like the Ring Indicator signal, on a PC's serial port, changes to the DCD signal state can generate a hardware interrupt that can be captured by the processor any time the DCD signal changes state, preventing the PC from needing to constantly poll the pin.
As used on modems
DCD is very important on modems, as it is the computer's primary way to find out that the modem has lost its connection to the remote host. Aside from intentional disconnects, modems can lose their connection for a variety of reasons unexpectedly - such as the phone line being disconnected. It is possible to use a modem without the DCD signal, however the only way for the computer to know that a connection is disconnected is by the modem transmitting the words "NO CARRIER" over the data lines. Because the words "NO CARRIER" are also a message that could appear in the context of a normal data session (for example, if typed by a person on the remote end), there is no positive way for a computer program to differentiate the words being sent over the connection versus from the modem.
External modems with LED status lights usually have a light labeled "CD" (carrier detect). This status light is directly coupled with what the modem is sending the DCD line.
By default, when a modem is powered up, the DCD signal is deasserted. It is not asserted until the modem either makes an outgoing call, or answers an incoming call, and then connects with a data modem on the other end. The signal is asserted at the same time the modem reports its CONNECT message, and stays asserted until the call is disconnected (either intentionally or because of a fault in the line). DCD is deasserted once the local modem is no longer receiving carrier from the remote modem, regardless of which side initiated the disconnect. So long as the DCD signal is high, the computer can assume that any data coming from the modem was sent from the remote side.
Virtually all newer modems allowing the behavior of the DCD signal to be configured. Typical options available include "always assert DCD", "assert DCD only when connecte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera%20Caf%C3%A9%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Camera Café is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network and QTV. Directed by Mark Meily, it premiered in April 2007. The series concluded in 2009.
Cast and characters
Epi Quizon as JC
Bearwin Meily as Harvey
Candy Pangilinan as Fonda
Assunta De Rossi as Puri
Jaime Fabregas as Boss Ric
Christian Vasquez as Sylvio
Kalila Aguilos as Carol
Vincent De Jesus as Pipay
Arnold Reyes as Vince
Noel Colet as Serge
Joy Viado as Joy
LJ Reyes as Julie
Gerhard Acao as Charm
Wilma Doesnt as New Manang
Patricia Ismael as Amanda
Monica Llamas as Gina
Former cast
Jojo Alejar as JC
Angel Aquino as Manang
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms
Workplace comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Moran%20%28English%20footballer%29 | Paul Moran (born 23 May 1968) is an English retired football forward.
References
Since 1888... The Searchable Premiership and Football League Player Database (subscription required)
1968 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Premier League players
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
Portsmouth F.C. players
Leicester City F.C. players
Newcastle United F.C. players
Southend United F.C. players
Peterborough United F.C. players
Enfield F.C. players
Boreham Wood F.C. players
Hertford Town F.C. players
Footballers from Enfield, London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCarta | MetaCarta is a software company that developed one of the first search engines to use a map to find unstructured documents. The product uses natural language processing to georeference text for customers in defense, intelligence, homeland security, law enforcement, oil and gas companies, and publishing. The company was founded in 1999 and was acquired by Nokia in 2010. Nokia subsequently spun out the enterprise products division and the MetaCarta brand to Qbase, now renamed to Finch.
History
Financing
MetaCarta was founded in 1999 by John R. Frank while he was working on his Ph.D. in physics as a Hertz Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By early 2001, John and Erik Rauch had developed a prototype of the Geographic Text Search product and incorporated the company together with Doug Brenhouse. In July 2001, they received $500,000 from DARPA’s Next Generation Internet Program. In 2001 and 2002, angel investors, including Esther Dyson, Bob Frankston, David P. Reed and Pattie Maes invested.
In October 2002, CIA’s venture capital arm In-Q-Tel invested and Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, said "there is tremendous interest and value in this type of geospatial information service and MetaCarta is the first company in this space in which we have invested." In-Q-Tel invested a second time in 2004.
In December 2003, the company raised a $6.5M Series B from a syndicate led by Sevin Rosen. Sevin Rosen espoused an investment philosophy of frugality but required a controlling interest, and the decision to accept that investment has become the subject of a business school case study. Sevin Rosen’s cofounder Ben Rosen has historical ties to Esther Dyson, and had invested in Bob Frankston’s company VisiCorp in the late 1970s. The syndicate included the venture capital arm of Chevron Texaco. In 2005, the company raised a Series C of $10 million led by FA Tech. Between 2006 and 2009, one member of the Series B syndicate went into receivership and the syndicate’s lead investor Sevin Rosen had an internal schism that eventually led it to split up. This forced the Sevin Rosen leader for the MetaCarta deal to depart.
Oil & Gas
In 2007, the company launched a product for the energy sector in partnership with IHS, and Schlumberger acquired exclusive distribution rights in the petroleum industry. The company partnered with content providers like the Society of Petroleum Engineers to support upstream exploration use cases.
Acquisition
Nokia acquired MetaCarta on April 9, 2010, a few months after the company reported record revenue growth. Nokia kept MetaCarta's core engineering team to build the search engine behind its HERE.com location search offering, and spun-out the enterprise products division and MetaCarta brand to Qbase Holdings in July, 2010. In 2012, John Frank left the role of Chief Architect for Search at Nokia to found Diffeo. Don Zereski, the CEO of MetaCarta at the time of its acquisition by Nokia became VP of Search and Discovery a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFN | WFN may refer to:
World Fishing Network, a Canadian and American English language TV channel
the proprietary font format supplied with versions 1 and 2 of Corel Draw
World Federation of Neurology
WFN, the National Rail station code for Watford North railway station, Hertfordshire, England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald%20Soup | Emerald Soup was a 1963 British children's science fiction television series. Consisting of seven 25-minute episodes produced by ABC Weekend TV for the ITV network, the series was aired weekly from Saturday 9 November to Saturday 21 December 1963. Each episode except the last one ended with a scene to be resolved the following week via a quote from William Shakespeare. The last episode ended with the discovery of a gem (an emerald?).
Norman Bogner acted as the Script Editor. The series conflicted in part with the initial episodes of the BBC series Doctor Who, also broadcast on Saturdays, which started on 23 November 1963.
Synopsis
The series was set in a small rural community, where a group of local children discovers, constructed in the vicinity, a laboratory that is conducting secret radiation tests. The children attempt to stop the tests before any damage to the environment can be done.
Cast
Jessica Maxwell - Jessica Spencer
John Maxwell - William Dexter
Jo Maxwell - Janina Faye
Gally Lloyd - Karl Lanchbury
Tim Maxwell - Gregory Phillips
Penny Dalton - Annette Andre
Poynter - Michael Bangerter
Mrs Evans - Ethel Gabriel
Gaunt - Allan McClelland
Lee - Frederic Abbott
Pascoe - Blake Butler
References
External links
Emerald Soup at the BFI Film and TV Database
1963 British television series debuts
1963 British television series endings
1960s British children's television series
Television shows produced by ABC Weekend TV
Television series by ITV Studios
1960s British science fiction television series
ITV children's television shows
English-language television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootX | BootX may refer to:
BootX (Apple), the default Apple bootloader.
BootX (Linux), the free Linux bootloader for Macintosh computers. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootX%20%28Linux%29 | BootX is the name of a graphical bootloader developed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt, which runs as an application or an extension to Mac OS 8 and 9 that allows Old World Apple computers to boot Linux. It is no longer maintained by its original author, as it does not work with any current hardware, but it is still available, and further development may be possible. It is one of three Linux bootloaders which may be used on most Old World Apple computers, the others being miBoot (included, but also independently enhanced by Jeff Carr of LinuxPPC, Inc.), and quik. New World Macs use a different bootloader, yaboot, for booting Linux.
External links
The BootX Bootloader at penguinppc.org
Boot loaders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUBIT | Cubit, often stylized CUBIT, is a computer user interface system for multi-touch devices, designed by Stefan Hechenberger and Addie Wagenknecht for Nortd Labs. It was developed to "demystify multitouch" technology by using an open-source model for software and hardware. It is a direct competitor of Microsoft Surface.
Purchasing
As of 2 May 2008, Nortd Labs is accepting orders for developer kits named the TouchKit. Kit buyers and users must supply their own projector and camera at a cost estimated at between $1,080 and $1,580 USD.
As of July 2008, the CUBIT system is for sale, by commission only, and both are rumored to have a two to three-month waiting list.
References
External links
, Nortd Labs
, Nortd production studio
Free system software
Multi-touch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Cartoon%20Network%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | The following is a partial list of programmes shown in the United Kingdom and Ireland by the TV channel, Cartoon Network.
Current programming
Original programming
Cartoon Network Studios
Craig of the Creek (1 October 2018)
Summer Camp Island (4 March 2019) (also on CBBC)
We Baby Bears (4 April 2022)
Warner Bros. Animation
Jellystone! (1 November 2021)
Teen Titans Go! (7 April 2014)
Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe
The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe (13 May 2023)
Acquired programming
Jade Armor (9 January 2023)
Welcome to Earth (5 December 2022)
Reruns of Ended series
Cartoon Network Studios
Apple & Onion (27 August 2018)
Adventure Time (30 January 2011)
Ben 10 (9 October 2016)
Clarence (3 November 2014)
Regular Show (28 February 2011)
We Bare Bears (7 September 2015)
Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe
The Amazing World of Gumball (2 May 2011)
Cartoonito programming
Acquired programming
Batwheels (5 June 2023)
Bugs Bunny Builders (2 November 2022)
Fireman Sam (1 March 2022)
Former programming
2 Stupid Dogs/Super Secret Secret Squirrel (1993 - 2000)
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1997 - 2003)
A Touch of Blue on the Stars (1996 - 1998)
AKA Cult Toons (1998 - August 2001)
All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (1997 - 2000)
All-New Pound Puppies (1993 - 1998)
Alvin and the Chipmunks (1994 - 1995)
Angela Anaconda (2000 - 2002)
Angelo Rules (29 November 2010 - 2011)
Animaniacs (1995 - 2002)
Aquaman (1993 - 1997)
Arabian Knights (1993 - 1999)
Archie's Comedy Hour (1995 - 1996)
Archie's Fun House (1995 - 1996)
Astro Boy (November 2005 - 12 June 2006)
Atom Ant (1993 - 1997)
Atomic Betty (first broadcast 1 November 2004 - 2006)
Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy (1993 - 2000)
Baby Blues (first broadcast 7 June 2002 - 2003)
Baby Looney Tunes (June 2005 - 2006)
Bakugan Battle Brawlers (8 September 2008 - 2010)
Bakugan: Battle Planet (1 September 2018 - 18 November 2020)
Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders (January 2011 - 2012)
Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge (27 February 2012)
Bakugan: New Vestroia (2010 - 2011)
Banana Splits (1993 - 2000)
Barney Bear (1994 - 1998)
Batfink (1994 - 1997)
Batman: The Animated Series (1993 - 2000)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold (first broadcast April 2009; last broadcast July 2019)
Batman Beyond (2000 - 2003; 2006)
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder (1997 - 1998)
Battle B-Daman (2005 - 2006)
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! (27 October 2015 - June 2016)
Bedrock Cops (1993 - 1997)
Beetlejuice (1995 - 2001)
Ben 10 (4 March 2006 - 2018)
Ben 10: Alien Force (16 February 2009 - 2013)
Ben 10: Omniverse (2012 - 2015)
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (October 2010 - 2013)
Ben 10 Ultimate Challenge/Challenge (29 October 2011 - 2012)
Best Ed (January 2009)
Beyblade (2003 - 2005)
Beyblade G Revolution (June 2004)
Beyblade V-Force (March 2004)
Big Bag (1999 - 2000)
Birdman and the Galaxy Trio (1993 - 1999)
Biskitts (1993 - 1999)
Blackstar (1995 - 1996)
Blinky Bill (1994 - June 2001)
Blue Submarine No. 6 ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20card | The go card is an electronic smartcard ticketing system developed by Cubic Corporation, which is currently used on the Translink public transport network (trains, buses, light rail, ferries) in South East Queensland, Australia. To use the go card, users hold the card less than 10 cm away from the reader to "touch on" before starting a journey, and must do the same to "touch off" the service at the end of the journey. The cost of each journey is deducted from the go card balance.
The Queensland Government awarded the $134 million contract to design, build, operate and maintain the go card system to Cubic Corporation in July 2003. In July 2006, TransLink signed up around 1,000 volunteers to trial the new smartcard system in the Redcliffe area. The go card was launched throughout Brisbane in February 2008, the go card was available at selected retail stores and Queensland Rail stations. It could also be accessed by phone or online.
History
The go card was a major part of the Queensland Government's integrated ticketing system to improve the efficiency and convenience of public transport. In July 2003, the Queensland Government awarded the $134 million contract to design, build, operate and maintain the go card system to Cubic Corporation.
Trial Period
Following the development of the go card, in July 2006, Translink signed up around 1,000 volunteers to test out the new smartcard system in the Redcliffe area. Translink installed the new smartcard equipment in Hornibrook Bus Lines and later Brisbane Transport buses. Sunbus' bus fleet also underwent pre-wiring so onboard equipment could be installed later. Translink also installed new smartcard fare machines at Petrie, Sandgate, Brunswick Street, Central and Roma Street stations.
Rollout
The go card was launched throughout Brisbane in February 2008. The system covers an area of 10,000 km2 and is available on 2,200 buses; at 153 train stations, 24 ferry wharves and 19 light rail stops.
The system continues to grow, with Cubic supplying ticketing equipment for the Gold Coast light rail system; the new rail line and stations at Springfield in Brisbane; and the extension of the ferry service to the Southern Moreton Bay Islands.
The go card can be purchased and topped up at retail stores and Queensland rail stations. It can also be accessed by phone or online. During the launch, Translink had staff on hand at rail stations and major bus interchanges to talk to passengers about go card and answer any questions.
To encourage the use of the go card, from 4 August 2008 all go card trips received a minimum 20% discount off paper tickets. Regular users who travel more than 10 journeys within a week received an additional discount of 50% off the price of any extra journeys.
On 4 January 2010, to encourage the use of the go cards during 2010, Translink gave away 400,000 free go cards loaded with $10 credit. go cards users also received off-peak discounts and automatic top-up.
Originally, Translink had prop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva%20Corporation | Shiva Corporation was a company that specialized in computer networking and associated equipment, in particular remote access products. The company was founded in 1985, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Shiva was co-founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates Frank Slaughter and by Daniel J. Schwinn, the current president and CEO of Avidyne Corporation.
Shiva added to its product portfolio with the acquisition of FastPath, an AppleTalk/Ethernet Gateway from Novell Inc. in 1990.
Shiva acquired the British network products company Spider Systems in 1995, which became Shiva Europe Ltd.
In 1996, Shiva acquired the Cupertino, California-based remote networking software supplier AirSoft Inc for around 65 million USD. This acquisition gave Shiva AirSoft's Powerburst software, which aimed to improve remote-access performance (speed and accuracy) by cacheing files on the client and validating data in the cache prior to fulfilling subsequent access requests. AirSoft's president at the time was Jagdeep Singh, who went on to co-found QuantumScape in 2010.
Users of 16-bit Internet Explorer on Windows 3 with dial-up connections saw the Shiva name regularly, as the company provided part of the dial-up TCP/IP stack for 16-bit Internet Explorer versions 3, 4 and 5.
In October 1998 Shiva was acquired by Intel and became part of the Intel Network Products Division. Intel's acquisition of Shiva took place during a lengthy class-action lawsuit in which it was alleged that Shiva hid information concerning the deterioration of the company. The lawsuit was settled in 1999 with Shiva agreeing to pay 4.35 million USD.
In November 2002 it was acquired by Simple Access Inc., which adopted the Shiva Corporation identity. A year later, the company was acquired by Mernet Secure Network. Mernet were subsequently acquired by Eicon Networks in February 2004. Since 2006, Eicon are now known as Dialogic Corporation.
References
1985 establishments in Massachusetts
1998 disestablishments in Massachusetts
American companies established in 1985
American companies disestablished in 1998
Computer companies established in 1985
Computer companies disestablished in 1998
Defunct companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct networking companies
Intel acquisitions
Networking hardware companies
Telecommunications equipment vendors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualification%20principle | In programming language theory, the qualification principle states that any semantically meaningful syntactic class may admit local definitions. In other words, it's possible to include a block in any syntactic class, provided that the phrases of that class specify some kind of computation.
A common examples for of this principle includes:
block command -- a command containing a local declaration, which is used only for executing this command. In the following excerpt from a C program, tmp variable declared is local to the surrounding block command:
if (a > b) {
int tmp;
tmp = a;
a = b;
b = tmp;
}
block expression -- an expression containing a local declaration, which is used only for evaluating this expression. In the following excerpt from ML program, local declaration of g can be used only during evaluation of the following expression:
let
val g = 9.8
in
m * g * h
end
block declaration is one containing a local declaration, the bindings produced by which are used only for elaborating the block declaration. In the following excerpt from ML program, local declaration of function leap, using an auxiliary function multiple:
local
fun multiple (n: int, d: int) =
(n mod d = 0)
in
fun leap (y: int) =
(multiple (y,4)
andalso not multiple (y, 100))
orelse multiple (y,400)
end
References
Articles with example C code
Articles with example OCaml code
Programming language theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%2A | D* (pronounced "D star") is any one of the following three related incremental search algorithms:
The original D*, by Anthony Stentz, is an informed incremental search algorithm.
Focused D* is an informed incremental heuristic search algorithm by Anthony Stentz that combines ideas of A* and the original D*. Focused D* resulted from a further development of the original D*.
D* Lite is an incremental heuristic search algorithm by Sven Koenig and Maxim Likhachev that builds on LPA*, an incremental heuristic search algorithm that combines ideas of A* and Dynamic SWSF-FP.
All three search algorithms solve the same assumption-based path planning problems, including planning with the freespace assumption, where a robot has to navigate to given goal coordinates in unknown terrain. It makes assumptions about the unknown part of the terrain (for example: that it contains no obstacles) and finds a shortest path from its current coordinates to the goal coordinates under these assumptions. The robot then follows the path. When it observes new map information (such as previously unknown obstacles), it adds the information to its map and, if necessary, replans a new shortest path from its current coordinates to the given goal coordinates. It repeats the process until it reaches the goal coordinates or determines that the goal coordinates cannot be reached. When traversing unknown terrain, new obstacles may be discovered frequently, so this replanning needs to be fast. Incremental (heuristic) search algorithms speed up searches for sequences of similar search problems by using experience with the previous problems to speed up the search for the current one. Assuming the goal coordinates do not change, all three search algorithms are more efficient than repeated A* searches.
D* and its variants have been widely used for mobile robot and autonomous vehicle navigation. Current systems are typically based on D* Lite rather than the original D* or Focused D*. In fact, even Stentz's lab uses D* Lite rather than D* in some implementations. Such navigation systems include a prototype system tested on the Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit and the navigation system of the winning entry in the DARPA Urban Challenge, both developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
The original D* was introduced by Anthony Stentz in 1994. The name D* comes from the term "Dynamic A*", because the algorithm behaves like A* except that the arc costs can change as the algorithm runs.
Operation
The basic operation of D* is outlined below.
Like Dijkstra's algorithm and A*, D* maintains a list of nodes to be evaluated, known as the "OPEN list". Nodes are marked as having one of several states:
NEW, meaning it has never been placed on the OPEN list
OPEN, meaning it is currently on the OPEN list
CLOSED, meaning it is no longer on the OPEN list
RAISE, indicating its cost is higher than the last time it was on the OPEN list
LOWER, indicating its cost is lower than the last time it was o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Intelligence | Interactive Intelligence was a telecommunications software and cloud computing development company that provided unified business communications solutions for call centers, Voice over IP companies, and business process automation.
In December 2016, the company was acquired by Genesys for $1.4 billion and its products were integrated into the PureCloud, PureConnect and PureEngage customer engagement platforms.
Products
The company's core product offering was the Interaction Center Platform, which centralized multi-channel business interactions and business processes. This platform could be delivered as either a premises or hosted cloud computing offering. In addition to its software, the company provided add-on professional services, support, and education for its product line. The company had partnerships with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Polycom, and Salesforce.com.
Genesys developed a customer experience platform portfolio from Interactive Intelligence technology. PureCloud is a contact center as a service (CCaaS) cloud platform that manages customer communication with comprehensive features. PureConnect, formerly called the Interaction Center Platform, integrates customer engagement functionality in one application suite. PureEngage is an omnichannel customer engagement for large organizations.
History
In October 1994, Donald E Brown founded Interactive Intelligence in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In 1995, Brown became the President and chief executive officer of the company.
By 1997, the company was the first to market an all-in-one customer engagement software suite.
In September 1999, during the dot-com bubble, the company became a public company via an initial public offering that raised $29 million and its stock price rose 141% on its first day of trading.
In 2007, the company developed and cloud computing solutions for contact centers.
In May 2009, the company acquired AcroSoft, a provider of insurance content management solutions.
In October 2010, the company acquired Latitude Software, a debt collection software and services provider, for $14 million in cash.
In March 2011, the company acquired Agori Communications, a German-based reseller of its multichannel contact center solutions.
In July 2011, the company acquired CallTime, an Australian-based reseller.
In August 2012, the company acquired Bay Bridge Decision Technologies, a developer of capacity planning and strategic analysis technology.
In April 2014, the company acquired OrgSpan, a software development company focused on social and business communication.
In December 2015, the company acquired Customer 360, based in Mumbai, for around $10 million.
In May 2016, the company sold Acrosoft to Hyland Software.
In August 2016, after the company put itself up for sale, Genesys agreed to acquire the company for $1.4 billion. The acquisition was completed in December 2016 and all of the company's products and services were integrated with those of Genesys.
Philanthropy
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Needham | Roger Michael Needham (9 February 1935 – 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist.
Early life and education
Needham was born in Birmingham, England, the only child of Phyllis Mary, née Baker (c.1904–1976) and Leonard William Needham (c.1905–1973), a university chemistry lecturer. He attended Doncaster Grammar School for Boys in Doncaster (then in the West Riding) going on to St John's College, Cambridge in 1953, and graduating with a BA in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy. His PhD thesis was on applications of digital computers to the automatic classification and retrieval of documents. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, computer architecture (capability systems) and local area networks.
Career and research
Among his theoretical contributions is the development of the Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic for authentication, generally known as the BAN logic. His Needham–Schroeder (co-invented with Michael Schroeder) security protocol forms the basis of the Kerberos authentication and key exchange system. He also co-designed the TEA and XTEA encryption algorithms. He pioneered the technique of protecting passwords using a one-way hash function.
In 1962 he joined the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, then called the Mathematical Laboratory, becoming Head of Laboratory in 1980. He was made a professor in 1981 and remained with the laboratory until his retirement in 1995. In 1997 he set up Microsoft's UK-based Research Laboratory. He was a founding Fellow of University College, Cambridge, which became Wolfson College.
Needham was a longtime and respected member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and the University Grants Committee. He was made a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1994.
Awards and honours
Needham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1993. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his contributions to computing in 2001. Needham held honorary doctorate degrees from University of Twente, Loughborough University, and University of Kent.
Named in Needhams honour
Needham has several awards named after him in his honour. The British Computer Society established an annual Roger Needham Award in 2004.
The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) established the annual Roger Needham PhD award. It awards €2,000 to a PhD student from a European university whose thesis is regarded to be an exceptional, innovative contribution to knowledge in the computer systems area. Past winners have been:
2021 Victor van de Veen, (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
2020 Michael Schwarz, Graz University of Technology for his PhD thesis Software-based Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in Restricted Environments
2019 Manolis Karpathiotakis, EPFL
2018 Dennis Andriesse (Vrij |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinbus | Darwinbus is the official operational name of the public bus network which operates within the Greater Darwin region, this includes the satellite cities Palmerston and Casuarina, in addition to the Darwin Rural Area in the Northern Territory. The network is exclusively operated by CDC Northern Territory under a six-year contract with the Northern Territory Government starting from 1 July 2022, and in the financial year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, carried approximately 3.5 million passengers, equivalent to a 5-6% modeshare. Prior to July 2022, the network was operated by two contractors; CDC Northern Territory (previously known as Buslink), and Territory Transit who had shared operation of the majority of urban bus services.
Services formerly operated by Territory Transit had been run by the government-owned Darwin Bus Service ("DBS") until October 2014, who had provided about 40% of all services in the Darwin region since Buslink commenced operation during the 1980s. In December 2013, it was announced that Darwin Bus Service services would be privatised. In July 2014, Transit Systems (owner of Territory Transit) was announced as the successful tenderer. In October 2014, Territory Transit took over the former Darwin Bus Service bus operation.
In May 2022, CDC Northern Territory was announced as the successful bidder after a competitive tender process. While both incumbents placed bids for the tender, Australian Transit Group also placed a bid during the tender process.
Fleet
As of December 2013, the Buslink fleet consisted of 164 buses based out of depots in Berrimah and Humpty Doo, and the then Darwin Bus Service fleet based in Stuart Park consisted of 36 buses.
After assuming control of the former Darwin Bus Service depot and its fleet at Stuart Park in 2014, Territory Transit began replacement of many older buses in the fleet. A total of 17 Mercedes-Benz O500LE rigid buses with Custom Coaches CB80 bodywork were added between 2015 and 2020, with the size of the fleet reducing slightly to 34 buses. While these additions largely displaced older rigid buses produced by MAN and Volvo, three of four Scania L94UA articulated buses were ultimately replaced. A further two buses (which included the last articulated bus) were withdrawn without replacement prior to CDC Northern Territory taking control of the Stuart Park Depot in 2022. A pair of Mercedes-Benz OH1830LE buses, which had previously been used by Buslink-Vivo, were also based at Stuart Park depot but were mostly utilised for charter work.
CDC Northern Territory's depots at Berrimah and Humpty Doo had a combined total of 158 buses as of February 2022, although the vast majority of these buses are not utilised for public bus services, instead performing charter, school bus and special needs transport duties. While a total of 47 buses are painted in the Darwinbus livery of black, white and ochre, 6 of those buses were utilised exclusively as school buses. Since commencement of the new con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangeloop%20Networks | Strangeloop Networks Inc develops the Strangeloop Site Optimizer software tool. Strangeloop Networks was founded in 2006 by twin brothers Jonathan Bixby and Joshua Bixby, with Richard Campbell, Kent Alstad, and Lee Purvis. The company's first product offering was the Strangeloop AS1000, a delivery-focused accelerator for ASP.NET. Strangeloop Networks is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Strangeloop Networks was acquired by Radware in February 2013.
References
External links
Data Center Knowledge: Strangeloop: Accelerating Mere Mortals
Network World: Speeding web services
Strangeloop website
Networking software companies
Software companies of Canada
Service-oriented architecture-related products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2C-YN | 2C-YN is an analog of phenethylamine that can be synthesized from 2C-I. Very little data exists about the pharmacological properties, metabolism, and toxicity of 2C-YN, although Daniel Trachsel lists it as having a dosage of around 50mg and a duration of around 2 hours, with relatively mild psychedelic effects.
Legality
Canada
As of October 31st, 2016; 2C-YN is a controlled substance (Schedule III) in Canada.
See also
2C-AL
2C-E
2C-CP
2C-V
References
2C (psychedelics)
Ethynyl compounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovely%20Day%20%28TV%20program%29 | Lovely Day is a Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Love Añover, it premiered on April 3, 2004. The show concluded on May 23, 2009 with a total of 263 episodes.
Hosts
Love Añover
Jacob Raterta
Bea Binene
Gabriel Roxas
Christian Esteban
BJ Forbes
Accolades
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of Lovely Day scored a 9.1% rating.
References
External links
2004 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance%20%28C%2B%2B%29 | In the C++ programming language, dominance refers to a particular aspect of C++ name lookup in the presence of Inheritance. When the compiler computes the set of declarations to which a particular name might refer, declarations in very-ancestral classes which are "dominated" by declarations in less-ancestral classes are hidden for the purposes of name lookup. In other languages or contexts, the same principle may be referred to as "name masking" or "shadowing".
The algorithm for computing name lookup is described in section 10.2 [class.member.lookup] of the C++11 Standard. The Standard's description does not use the word "dominance", preferring to describe things in terms of declaration sets and hiding. However, the Index contains an entry for "dominance, virtual base class" referring to section 10.2.
Example without diamond inheritance
void f(double, double); // at global scope
struct Grandparent {
void f(int);
void f(double, double);
};
struct Parent : public Grandparent {
void f(int); // hides all overloads of Grandparent::f
};
struct Child : public Parent {
void g() { f(2.14, 3.17); } // resolves to Parent::f
};
In the above example, Child::g contains a reference to the name f. However, the program as a whole contains four declarations of the name f. In order to figure out which f is meant, the compiler computes an overload set containing all the declarations which are not hidden at the point of the call. The declaration of f at global scope is hidden by Grandparent::f, and in turn Grandparent::f is hidden by Parent::f. Thus the only declaration which is considered by overload resolution is Parent::f — and the result in this case is a diagnostic, because the call-site provides two arguments where Parent::f expects only one.
It is often surprising to new C++ programmers that the declaration of Parent::f dominates and hides all of the more-ancestral declarations, regardless of signature; that is, Parent::f(int) dominates and hides the declaration of Grandparent::f(double, double) even though the two member functions have very different signatures.
It is also important to observe that in C++, name lookup precedes overload resolution. If Parent::f had multiple overloads (for example f(int) and f(double, double)), the compiler would choose between them at overload-resolution time; but during the name-lookup phase we are concerned only with choosing among the three scopes Grandparent::f, Parent::f, and ::f. The fact that Grandparent::f(double, double) would have been a better overload than f(int) is not part of the compiler's consideration.
Example with diamond inheritance
struct Grandparent {
void f(int);
void f(double, double);
};
struct Mother : public Grandparent {
void f(int); // hides all overloads of Mother::Grandparent::f
};
struct Father : public Grandparent { };
struct Child : public Mother, Father { // Mother::Grandparent is not the same subobject as Father::Grandparent
void g() { f(2.14, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteopedia | Proteopedia is a wiki, 3D encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules.
The site contains a page for every entry in the Protein Data Bank (>130,000 pages), as well as pages that are more descriptive of protein structures in general such as acetylcholinesterase, hemoglobin, and the photosystem II with a Jmol view that highlights functional sites and ligands. It employs a scene-authoring tool so that users do not have to learn JSmol script language to create customized molecular scenes. Custom scenes are easily attached to "green links" in descriptive text that display those scenes in JSmol. A web browser is all that is needed to access the site and the 3D information; no viewers are required to be installed.
Proteopedia was the winner of the 2010 award for the best website by The Scientist magazine.
Legal aspects
Licensing terms
All user-added content is free and covered by the GNU Free Documentation License. Proteopedia is hosted at the Israel Structural Proteomics Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
See also
Protein structure
References
External links
Proteopedia website
Biological databases
Creative Commons-licensed databases
Israeli online encyclopedias
MediaWiki websites
Encyclopedias of science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBD | PBD may refer to:
.pbd, a computer file name extension for PowerBuilder
Butyl PBD. a fluorescent organic compound
Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (, , )
Pacific Bell Directory
Pacific black duck, a dabbling duck
Pale Blue Dot, a photograph of Earth made by Voyager 1, and
Pale Blue Dot (book), a 1994 book by Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot (album), a 2008 album by Benn Jordan
Pediatric bipolar disorder, that is, bipolar disorder in children
Peroxisome biogenesis disorders, a group of rare and severe congenital disorders
Peterbald, a cat bred
Porbandar Airport (IATA: PBD), Gujarat, India
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, a celebratory day in India
Programming by demonstration (PbD), a technique to create automated tasks for computers and robots without using a programming language
Pyrrolobenzodiazepine, a medical compound |
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